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NZ Super Fund posts positive result

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2020
Despite delivering single digit returns, the NZ Super Fund managed to outperform the average returns of Australian MySuper products and the Future Fund. The $44.8 billion fund recorded a return of 1.73% for the year ending June 30 underperforming its ...

Opportunities exist in high yield: Eaton Vance

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2020
... central banks, on their own, cannot halt," it said. "We believe investment opportunities do exist across European and US markets and that active, selective exposure to US and global high-yield securities at this juncture will continue to benefit clients." ...

Aussie analysts share COVID-19 investment tips

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... knocking on the world's door, investors keep looking beyond the doom and gloom to push global bourses higher, with US markets now roughly up 30% since their March 23 lows. Since markets hit their bottom, the S&P/ASX 200 has only risen around 20% ...

BNY Mellon IM country head departs

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
BNY Mellon Investment Management's local country head has left after about five years with the company. Phil Filippelis headed distribution and client services for the business in Australia. Denis Gambi, who joined the company three years ago from ...

Markets react as antiviral drug disappoints

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020
... have surprised many," he said. "But with each day's trade sitting on a knife's edge, it's proved the catalyst to tip US markets into a modesty risk-averse state. With markets falling, so did credit, he said. "US Treasury yields dropped, with the yield ...

Global markets bleed red

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... corporate losses shifted what had been an almost eerily optimistic sentiment towards trade over the last few weeks. US markets had made somewhat of a recovery of late, with the S&P 500 recording a new monthly high just yesterday. In Wednesday's trade ...

Wall Street rally runs out of steam

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2020
... have died from the coronavirus in New York City alone, with 398,185 confirmed cases of the virus in the US. Although US markets have suffered slight falls overnight, they have rallied about 20% since their March 23 lows. Currently, as expected, the S&P/ASX ...

Pinnacle distribution director takes new role

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2020
... exceptional client service, will be invaluable." Hodnett has over 17 years' experience across Australian, European and US markets. Prior to this, he worked for seven years with Eaton Vance Investment Management, including heading its European institutional ...

Dow skyrockets in two-day winning streak

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2020
The Dow Jones Industrial Average has posted second day of gains, rising 2.4% after witnessing its best one-day percentage gain since the Great Depression on Tuesday. "Turnaround Tuesday" saw the bourse surging 11.4% or 2112.98 points during trading ...

The sick short: Banking big on the coronavirus

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2020
... "Markets have been impacted negatively, but perhaps not as negatively as they should have," he said. "For the most part, US markets have ignored the virus because it is not really a US problem. The Apple downgrade overnight brought it home, in a major ...