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Trading platform partners with Sharesight

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2020
A new trading platform has partnered with Sharesight to provide portfolio and tax reporting to retail investors. Marketech Focus, which soft launched in June, has revamped its digital infrastructure to allow investors to track portfolio performances ...

Alex Waislitz fails to block OneVue acquisition

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2020
OneVue shareholders approved Iress' offer yesterday. Alex Waislitz will still walk away with $22 million, while Connie McKeage's family investment vehicle will see a $15 million payday. Yesterday's poll was to approve Iress's revised ...

Aussies want to invest super in property: Research

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2020
Around half of Australians think property is the most secure and profitable long-term investment, compared with shares, gold, cash and fixed interest, according to new research. The survey found that 41% of Australians would invest their superannuation ...

Alex Waislitz urges OVH shareholders to vote no

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020
The billionaire investor is set to ask OneVue shareholders to bid against Iress's revised offer for 43 cents per share, ahead of a shareholder vote on October 9. Iress yesterday upped it June 1 offer of 40 cents to acquire OneVue to 43 cents. But the ...

Heine family sells Netwealth shares

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2020
The Heine family took advantage of Netwealth's strong results and buoyant share price yesterday to sell down about $76 million worth of shares in the company -- a tiny sliver of their expansive holding. The sale of 5.5 million shares was across ...

Global manager launches China A-shares fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2020
... fund holds a portfolio of 30-50 stocks, with at least two thirds of the assets in mainland China stocks with the rest in H shares or ADRs (a trust structure than allow foreign investors to hold mainland shares indirectly). The fund's goal is to beat ...

Major OneVue shareholder says IRESS bid too low

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2020
Billionaire investor and OneVue shareholder Alex Waislitz says IRESS's offer to acquire OVH for 40 cents a share is a far cry from the company's actual value. Waislitz's Thorney Opportunities and related companies started buying stock in ...

Global ETF leaders push for reform

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020
The world's largest exchange traded product issuers have partnered to petition for classification reform, in a move which BlackRock head of iShares Australasia Christian Obrist said would help to improve transparency for investors. In a proposal to ...

Aussie equities winners, losers revealed

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2020
Aussie passive and active equity strategies have been put to the test, with Morningstar assessing how the country's small and large-cap managers have fared during the highs of 2019 and the lows of 2020. The coronavirus crash has renewed debate on ...

Macquarie shares halve in COVID-19 sell-off

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2020
Macquarie stock has plummeted amid the COVID-19 sell-off, with shares taking a further 12.9% dive on Thursday. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 sell-off (February 21), Macquarie shares have taken a 47.6% hit. At the time of writing, the financial ...