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Morgan Stanley's top picks for Aussie ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2019
... 200 Resources Fund (ASX: OZR) had 61% invested in top five holdings of BHP Group, Rio Tinto, Woodside Petroleum, Newcrest Mining, and Fortescue Metals.

Chief economist update: Lower iron ore a boon to the Aussie budget

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2019
... its nearest bottom) with prices dropping by more than 20% to US$96.56 a month later. Reduced supply - due mainly to the mining dam disaster in Brazil - and increased demand - due to higher Chinese steel production - sent iron ore prices soaring in the ...

Insider trading rife among company directors: ANU

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2019
... the share price back again." The study suggests the practice is happening across all sectors but was most prevalent in mining companies. ASIC responded to the findings suggesting that the market is "cleaner" than the study implies and that it "actively ...

Plato to raise $200 million

KRISTI CHENG  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2019
... the same level of income as some of the high income stocks. "You're going to be get the advantages if there's a mining boom, you're going to get advantages from some of the tech stocks, or some of the healthcare stocks, like CSL," he said. ...

Fossil fuel holdings cost BlackRock investors $90bn

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2019
... US$19 billion loss for BlackRock over three years. In 2011, BlackRock was the top shareholder in Peabody Energy, a coal mining company with operations in the US and Australia, with two million shares equating to an 11% stake in common shares, the report ...

Financial services boom rolls on

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2019
... services - comprising mainly the banking and funds management sectors - is helping power Australia's economy ahead of the mining industry. Between 1974 and 2018, financial services contributed 32.5 percentage points to economic growth, while mining added ...

Suncorp responds to shareholder resolution

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2019
... institutional bank." The spokesperson added that Suncorp does not directly invest in, finance or underwrite new thermal coal mining extraction projects, or new thermal coal electricity generation, and will phase out of these exposures by 2025. Market ...

Suncorp pressured on coal

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2019
... institutional bank," the spokesperson said. "Suncorp does not directly invest in, finance or underwrite new thermal coal mining extraction projects, or new thermal coal electricity generation, and we will phase out of these exposures by 2025. We will ...

AMP Capital revamps ethical super funds

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2019
... enhanced its investment screen in regards to fossil fuels to reduce the revenue companies can make from fossil fuels including mining thermal coal and brown coal power generation from 20% to 10%. The fund already had an exclusion in place for "companies ...

Mercer unveils best-performing Aussie equity funds

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2019
... Leading managers were overweight in the following sectors and stocks in FY19: iron ore (BHP and Rio Tinto), gold (Newcrest Mining and Evolution Mining), information technology (Altium and Afterpay) and healthcare (CSL and Resmed). Out of the major Australian ...