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Fortescue seeks to hide pricing

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020
... customers and prospective customers for the contract sale of low-grade seaborne iron ore fines. FMG is the fourth largest mining company in the world, and the largest solo iron ore producer. Argus said it has been reporting the company's discounts ...

Aussie analysts share COVID-19 investment tips

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... she said. "That's why, since we entered a bear market, utilities, healthcare, consumer staples and some materials (mining stocks) have outperformed the market. While those that are abandoning their earnings forecasts or deferring dividends to preserve ...

Financial services boards overpaid: Research

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... theirs. "When board remuneration is ranked against company size, the top 10 best value boards in Australia are CSL, Newcrest Mining, Magellan Fin Group Limited, Coles Group, GPT Group, Afterpay Touch, Xero Limited, Sydney Airport, the a2 Milk Company ...

Local financial sector to lose $3.5bn plus

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... about one fortieth of the economy overall," Richardson said of accommodation and food services. The next on the list are mining, construction, professional services, banking and finance. "The next hardest hits are big mostly because these industries ...

Aussie equities winners, losers revealed

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2020
... the best stock-pickers in the Australian market, judiciously avoiding the expensive defensives and highly cyclical oil/mining stocks." Over the past few years, many institutional and retail investors had started to move away from domestic active management ...

No golden ticket for super funds

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
... "Some Australian equity strategies may serve as a proxy for commodity investments, including gold, given the importance of mining to the Australian economy," Williams said. "Funds with less scale (under pressure to defend their 'niche' value proposition) ...

Former State Super investments chief returns

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
... departing the fund and the role of chief investment officer. Rasmussen left the fund in late 2016, eventually joining the Coal Mining Industry Long Service Leave Funding Corporation as chief investment officer in January 2018. About six months later ...

Best, worst global equities funds in March quarter

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... investors shunned expensive parts of the market, like technology. Instead, already cheap cyclical sectors like energy, mining, and financial services became even cheaper, while the expensive defensives and traditional growth names proved more resilient," ...

Best, worst performing Aussie equities funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2020
... driven strategies. "The Nikko AM strategies traditionally have large weightings to the financial services, energy, and mining sectors, which were all negatively impacted by the faltering economic conditions, oil price collapse, and lower demand from ...

Opportunities and threats amid COVID-19 crisis

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... higher-cost conventional sources, such as ultra-deep water." Potter said there were both opportunities and threats within the mining sector. " Base metal prices are suffering on the weakened and uncertain global economic outlook, while bulk commodities ...