Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 411 - 420 of 6309 results for "Stocks"

Copia launches impact fund

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2021
... investors. Copia launched the TT Global Environmental Impact Fund, which invests in a global equity portfolio with 30-40 stocks. Copia is the exclusive distributor of the fund in Australia, while the portfolio is managed by TT's Environmental Solutions ...

Mary Manning exits Ellerston Capital

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2021
... another boutique. Manning was the portfolio manager of the Ellerston Asia Growth Fund, which invested in Asia ex-Japan stocks and returned 1.3% over the benchmark's 7.19% in the three years ending May. The fund was behind the benchmark by 7bps since ...

Fidante readies new boutique

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2021
... Markets Fund. It is understood to be set up Doug Huey, who has about 24 years of experience covering Asia and technology stocks. Huey was most recently a portfolio manager at PM Capital, which he joined in 2018 after working as an analyst at Platinum ...

Advisers turn to ETFs during COVID

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2021
... and taking a more cautious approach. This is reflected in their trades as more advisers preferred to invest in large-cap stocks, while self-directed clients looked for opportunistic investments, he said. Overall, some 28% of new accounts opened with ...

Goodments by Douugh now in Australia

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021
US-based investing app Goodments by Douugh is now available in Australia, offering brokerage-free access to US stocks and ETFs. Goodments was founded in 2017 by former ANZ financial adviser Tom Culver and then-Leo Burnett advertising executive Emily ...

Maine forces pension funds to dump fossil fuels

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021
... law, the Maine Public Employees Retirement System "may not invest the assets of any state pension or annuity fund in any stocks or other securities of any corporation or company within the fossil fuel industry or any subsidiary, affiliate or parent of ...

BlackRock rejigs Aussie shares fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2021
... Lanchester, Madeleine Beaumont and Sam Theodore. About a quarter of the strategy's assets are invested in consumer discretionary stocks including pureplay e-commerce player Redbubble. Industrials are the second-highest sector exposure, accounting for ...

UBS shuts fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAY 2021
... effective April 28. The strategy, where HALO stood for high alpha long term opportunity, invested in about 20 ASX-listed stocks. It is one of the lineup that UBS added to ASX's mFunds marketplace in 2015. In December 2018, the fund's management ...

Budget to boost home ownership rates

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2021
... of as little as 5%. An additional $124.7 million will also be given to states and territories to bolster public housing stocks. "The government understands the importance of owning your own home and the significant economic and social benefits home ownership ...

Chief economist update: COVID-19 causes double-dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2021
... STOXX 600 companies in Q1 are expected to surge 71.3% from a year earlier, which would mark the best quarter for European stocks since IBES records began nine years ago" and that, "European bank Q1s show fading concerns about pandemic driven meltdown". ...