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Worst investment ideas revealed: ARK

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2020
The research team behind ARK Invest have released a new 'bad ideas report', revealing the industries they believe investors should avoid. Top of the list of bad ideas was physical bank branches, as the ARK researchers think consumer banking will shift ...

Ratings house launches

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2020
A local consulting firm has launched a research service aiming to offer quality insights into a variety of investment vehicles, particularly targeting the ratings gap in complex products. Evergreen Ratings, a subsidiary of Evergreen Consultants, analyses ...

Chief economist update: The second wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2020
Wall Street is down! Repeat, Wall Street is down! At the close of last night's trading activity all US benchmark equity indices closed sharply lower: Dow (6.9%), S&P 500 (5. 9%), Nasdaq (5.3%), Russell 2000 (7.6%). Financial market wire and web ...

Best equities funds to May end

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2020
New Morningstar data names the equities funds that tallied up the highest returns in the 12-months ending May 31, with Baillie Gifford, Nikko and Perpetual funds among the winners. Baillie Gifford funds distributed by Colonial First State locally have ...

Thematic investing grows threefold

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
The global thematic funds landscape has increased almost threefold over the past three years, with assets under management swelling to $295 billion (US$195 billion) worldwide. That's according to the latest Morningstar report, which analyses the key ...

Banks face imminent disruption

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2019
The banks are facing big problems, according to Catherine Wood, chief executive of ARK Invest. Wood was asked at a Nikko Asset Management event how she considered banks to be positioned for the future. "Banks anywhere in the world have a big problem ...

Nikko launches global disruption fund

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2018
Nikko Asset Management is launching a global disruptive innovation fund in partnership with ARK Investment Management. The fund is a global equity portfolio focused on disruptive innovation, providing Australian investors with exposure to ARK's disruptive ...

Amazon still an early-stage company: Fundie

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2017
ARK Invest chief executive Catherine Wood holds the view that every stock in the firm's disruptive innovation portfolio is an early-stage growth stock, and this includes Amazon - a firm approaching US$600 billion market capitalisation. "The way we know ...

Nikko AM enters SMA partnership

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2017
... Disruptive Innovation SMA for Australian clients of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management. It is the first strategy from Nikko AM and ARK - which specialises in investing in disruptive innovators - in Australia. Nikko AM Australia managing director Sam Hallinan ...

Nikko AM to disrupt with acquisition

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 7 AUG 2017
Nikko Asset Management acquired a minority share in a New York-based specialist investment house with ambitions to develop more innovative investment solutions. As a stakeholder in ARK Investment Management, Nikko AM has obtained exclusivity to provide ...