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Man GLG launches Asia strategy

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2020
... potential future developments to understand how countries, industries and investment styles will perform. Swan believes equity markets in the Asia region have significant opportunities for stock picking and alpha. The strategy will be adapted to ensure ...

Magellan adds to board

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2020
... currency hedging strategy in the Magellan High Conviction Trust to reduce the downside risk to the portfolio when equity markets and the value of the Australian dollar are both declining. Magellan is restructuring its retail global equities funds to ...

Magellan axes currency hedging in trust

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020
A Magellan trust has removed its currency hedging strategy to reduce the downside risk to the portfolio when equity markets and the value of the Australian dollar are both declining. Magellan High Conviction Trust will move to an unhedged approach to ...

US analysts fail to add value

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2020
... not contribute to stock mispricing. The researchers have suggested that their findings are evidence that global equity markets are not efficiently priced, and that under some conditions these inefficiencies are more pronounced. "The fact that analyst ...

Chief economist update: V for vaccine

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2020
... lot like Christmas. Encouraging test results for a COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech sent world equity markets from New York to Rio and ol' London town on the up and up and up. Pfizer and BioNTech are set to request FDA approval for ...

New chief for global fund manager

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2020
... successfully integrated all of the firm's investments businesses - public and private credit, real estate and specialty equity markets - in addition to operations, technology, product management, distribution and marketing, Barings said. Finke retires ...

Super funds overlook VC potential

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2020
... be earning more through longer-term venture capital investment than compared with today's short-term public equity markets. "Less investment into smaller, younger Australian companies will have the corollary effect of harming the future development ...

Ninety One wins equity mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2020
... One's 4Factor process is well suited for generating alpha in one of the world's most liquid and inefficient equity markets. We believe the strategy's focus on exploiting behavioural biases and disciplined fundamental research are important ...

Worst investment ideas revealed: ARK

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2020
... equity and fixed income holders. ARK estimates that roughly $2 trillion in enterprise value is at risk in the public equity markets across the retail categories with heavy real estate footprints, as shown below." Next on the list of bad ideas was linear ...

American manager eyes local market

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2020
... for investors wanting to take advantage of strongly trending markets whilst remaining cognisant of tail risks in equity markets," the firm said. "Our proprietary allocation engine analyses the evolution of covariance amongst strategies as well as assets ...