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AMP Capital ups jail stake

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020
... Infrastructure fund, said the facility was an "exciting" addition to the fund's portfolio. "CIF aims to provide retail investors with consistent and sustainable returns including an attractive income yield over the long term, and this acquisition is ...

Opportunity for the brave: High yield credit

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020
... the brave. That's according to Daintree Capital director and credit portfolio manager Mark Mitchell, who warned retail investors to steer clear of the extremely illiquid asset class. "High yield credit is a relatively illiquid asset in normal market ...

Superannuation startup launches raise

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2020
... raise to be followed by an institutional one next month. GigSuper is aiming to raise $100,000 to $400,000 from retail investors, in a crowdfunded equity campaign launched yesterday. The fund is conducting the retail raise through online platform Birchal ...

ASIC issues stark warning to retail investors

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2020
... dormant retail broking clients which had not traded in the period before this volatility suddenly started trading. "Retail investors have been trading more frequently. For client identifiers that were active during the focus and benchmark periods, there ...

Aussie equities winners, losers revealed

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2020
... expensive defensives and highly cyclical oil/mining stocks." Over the past few years, many institutional and retail investors had started to move away from domestic active management as it was "just not delivering", Morningstar said. "Many investors ...

Bitcoin bonanza amid COVID-19 crisis

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
... Bitcoin has surged just shy of 50% over a similar time frame, De Corrado said. Bitcoin has been popular with retail investors over the last few years, but has had some institutional and wholesale interest of late too. "As the growth in Bitcoin has attracted ...

Trading platforms see record use

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... see opportunities in the market, a point corroborated by recent Investment Trends research, which noted 26% of retail investors intend to increase their exposure to Australian equities in the next fortnight. Nabtrade director of investor relations Gemma ...

Not at the bottom, yet: Research

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2020
Retail investors believe the market has further to fall before it hits the bottom, yet remain optimistic about the future. Latest Investment Trends research shows retail investors hold a positive view of the future, despite feeling that we haven't yet ...

Court confirms Storm Financial founders breached duties

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2020
... Cassimatis' had responsibilities including "ensuring that investors obtained from Storm (and particularly retail investors exhibiting the five characteristics of vulnerability)... consideration and investigation of the subject matter of the advice ...

Macquarie shares halve in COVID-19 sell-off

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2020
... continue to come under pressure as funding gets more expensive and net interest margins contract." He warned that retail investors were unlikely to see dividends for the foreseeable future. "Although the banks are far better placed than during the GFC ...