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China infrastructure push to boost Australia exports

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2015
... Taiwan exchanges." Origin is invested in "a mix of small and mid cap companies with a heavy exposure to technology and financials," Birkhold said. He added that the strategy prefers smaller companies over resources stocks: "China is a very large economy ...

Barrett firm acquires Pride Advice

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2015
... this included firms' technology deployment plans and their EBIT ratio as a percentage of their revenue. The fourth is financials - "We like either large-scale businesses with sustainable profitability or smaller fast-growth ones," he explained - and ...

PROFILE: PM Capital CIO Paul Moore

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
... point Moore's trust was the best performing mutual fund in the country as a result of his decision to invest in US financials. "Through good luck or hard work, the performance of those funds was really good." In those early days Moore modelled his investment ...

Aussie banks overpriced, undercapitalised: Perpetual

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
Australian financials are overpriced and undercapitalised relative to their global counterparts, Perpetual Investments global equities portfolio manager Garry Laurence said. "We feel much more comfortable investing in more attractively valued financials ...

Good Budget, bad Budget

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2015
"Dizzy, I'm so dizzy my head is spinning A Like a whirlpool it never ends..." A -Tommy Roe Done listening, watching and reading all about whys, hows, whens and wherefores of Budget 2015-16? I know I am, I'm so, like... over it. By the by, Financial ...

Global finance, resources key to diversification

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... financial sector has not been a favourite among investors after the GFC, so it's currently undervalued. "But if you have financials to your global equity strategy that means that you'll have exposure to financial institutions in places like New York ...

CFSGAM hires head of research from UBS

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... Wilson will join CFSGAM on 18 May. Aside from his new role, he will also have analyst coverage of telcos and diversified financials. During 30 years in the industry he has held a number of research and sales roles at UBS and J.P. Morgan. CFSGAM head ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2015
... this is taking a lot of steam out of the market, with investors taking profits from the consumer staples, telcos and financials sectors. "You can't understate the significance of the Woolworths result," he said. "It's really set a shockwave through the ...

A little tweet told me

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2015
"Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception." -Sophocles Breakfast wasn't nice for me yesterday. Nah, Virginia, it wasn't because the toast was burnt or the bacon and eggs semi-cooked. It's because I was eating my own words with my foot in my ...

Investor sentiment shifting overseas

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
... slows their revenue growth. Australia is especially vulnerable due to its heavy reliance on the financial sector. "Financials being 40% of the Australian equity market mean that if that sector comes under review it will hit the market more broadly," ...