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Top equities managers revealed

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2020
... management are most evident in more challenging markets and this continues to be the case." Managers with exposures to healthcare and IT also outperformed, McCabe said. "The COVID-19 pandemic and market reaction has been unprecedented," he said. "While ...

Growth outplays value: Frontier

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2020
... energy and consumer discretionary sectors each delivering double digit performance. In a flip of the previous quarter, healthcare, consumer staples and utilities provided a drag on performance for the period despite being among the best performers for ...

Private equity weathers COVID-19 crisis: Research

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2020
... with more attractive fundamentals," Zinurova said. "Our survey and research indicates that sectors like technology, healthcare and consumer staples offer attractive opportunities from the entry pricing perspective and strong tail winds driving those ...

AustralianSuper throws weight behind SDG platform

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
... for beneficiaries." The SDGs aim to achieve better outcomes for people all over the world by addressing issues like healthcare access, clean water scarcity and protecting the environment. The platform will identify companies whose products and services ...

Experts battle for GST reform

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
... policy response, and also advocated for an increase to the GST rate as well as expanding the base to cover fresh food, healthcare, childcare, education, and water and sewage over the medium to long term. Supporting this argument were PwC projections ...

Perpetual wins government fund mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2020
... Vanuatu, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa and other Pacific Islands. It will invest across a variety of sectors including agriculture, healthcare, education, financial inclusion and clean energy, according to DFAT. It will not offer grants and instead use loans, equity ...

Super funds merge, board revealed

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2020
... reductions and board changes. The merged fund now manages over $120 billion on behalf of 1.1 million members, including healthcare and aged care workers, teachers, police and emergency service workers, government and community workers. In announcing ...

Investors turn to China-focused strategies

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2020
... economy is increasingly being powered by private companies in the sectors which make up the 'new economy' -namely healthcare, consumer staples, consumer discretionary and the technology sectors," he said. "The companies in the index generally ...

Chi-X releases viral TraCRs stocks

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2020
... behavioural trends kick-started by the COVID-19 pandemic. This includes video conferencing service Zoom, protective healthcare equipment provider 3M, payments giant Mastercard, supermarket conglomerate Walmart and anti-viral pharmaceutical company Gilead ...

Job vacancies up 15%: Research

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2020
... to its data financial services is one of the three industries most likely to be hiring right now - alongside IT and healthcare. The social media site for professional also reported that according to its workplace confidence research, which surveys 5200 ...