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Value of internet search for stock markets revealed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2021
... ideas. "Until now it's been widely thought that unrestrictive internet searches result in bias and an overvaluation of stocks but that would mean restricting search would decrease stock market crash risk. Instead, we saw a significant jump," Zheng said. ...

Fidelity portfolio manager resigns

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2021
... information technology (23.6% of the portfolio), financials (20%), consumer discretionary (19.5%), materials (11.7%) and others. Stocks listed in China, Taiwan and India account for more than half of the assets. Its five biggest shareholdings were Taiwan ...

Chief economist update: The pause that refreshes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2021
... consecutive days of losses on Wall Street is a very long time in financial markets so much so that "pundits struggle to explain stocks stumble", according to the Australian Financial Review (AFR). But as I like saying, Christmas doesn't come everyday. ...

Value managers fight back: Mercer

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2021
... of portfolio management for Mercer in the Pacific Ronan McCabe commented the latest findings show the recovery in value stocks. "While we don't know whether the current outperformance of value will be sustained, we do believe this approach has the ...

ARK Innovation ETF cops neutral rating

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2021
... the firm's self-categorization of its investable universe does not by itself imply a rigorous understanding of which stocks are likely to rise, fall, succeed, and fail together. Forward-looking estimates of the holdings' correlations and variances ...

S&P rejigs index as BlackRock ETF grows

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2021
The swelling size of a BlackRock ETF that invests in clean energy stocks has forced S&P to expand the underlying index from 30 stocks to 100. But an Aussie ETF tracking the index doesn't want to change. Index giant S&P's Global Clean Energy Index launched ...

Sunsuper, QSuper members ask for better climate disclosures

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2021
... know: the timeline in which QSuper will complete the promised carbon exposure analysis of its portfolio, a detailed list of stocks the fund holds and will analyse, the strategy for achieving net zero by 2050, and the fund's base case scenario for a low ...

Northern Trust AM's stellar year

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2021
... active positions in looking for active alpha," he said, comparing it to fundamental managers who hold big positions in fewer stocks. Other factor-based funds management businesses in Australia include Dimensional and Robeco. But Bennett said the competition ...

Aberdeen Standard rejigs Aussie equities fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2021
... Standard, Lopez said the change in the fund's investible companies will be "material" but the firm declined to provide names of stocks, or the portion of the current portfolio that will be excluded from the new SRI strategy. The new strategy will screen ...

New fund launches on Chi-X

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2021
... the current market conditions," Hambling said. "In recent weeks we have seen a major market rotation from growth to value stocks. Our activist investment approach is perfectly positioned to capitalise on this event and deliver strong returns for Australian ...