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Insider trading four times more common

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAR 2021
... information is larger as measured by market reactions to the announcement of the information," Patel said. "So, more volatile stocks that see greater share price movements, and popular stocks that attract a high volume of trading, are more frequent targets ...

Hyperion ETF goes live

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAR 2021
... year, the fund has returned 40.6% against the benchmark performance of 8.2%. The fund holds a 40% weighting in technology stocks including Square, Amazon, PayPal and ServiceNow. It also benefited from its holding in Tesla. Hyperion believes its 25 holdings ...

Perpetual's Garry Laurence starts boutique

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2021
... means "prophet" in Spanish. The fund is slated for a broader launch to wholesale investors on May 1. It will hold five-40 stocks, and allow ASX-listed companies, derivatives and up to 30% in short positions. But the fund doesn't plan to gear and ...

Active funds quell passive flows

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2021
... report found, after analysing hundreds of millions of trades on the Calastone global network. Equity funds focused on Aussie stocks took in US$1.8 billion in new capital over the last two years - but only from domestic investors. Australian-focused funds ...

Investor population rises for global equities

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2021
... international share traders in Australia doubling to nearly 110,000 throughout 2020. "The spectacular recovery witnessed by US stocks in the second half of 2020 has captured the attention of a global audience, prompting many Australians to consider investing ...

OpenMarkets raises $10m, moves up ranks

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2021
OpenMarkets is set to list later this year, having secured $10 million in a pre-IPO fund raise as it overtook CMC Markets as second-largest retail broker in Australia. Now trailing only CommSec, OpenMarkets says feedback from investors in the oversubscribed ...

Perpetual promotes on Aussie equities team

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2021
... joining as a graduate accountant in 2013, moving to equities dealer in 2013 and an analyst in 2016. He currently covers stocks in gaming and agriculture sectors. In another deputy PM appointment, the Perpetual Smaller Companies fund which is managed ...

New investment manager enters Aussie market

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2021
... politically constrained," Feng said. "Without those constraints and comprehensive, fundamental coverage of small and mid-cap stocks, we easily differentiate and add value." Fullgoal has retained 3PD, founded by Robert Harrison and Steven Larkin, who ...

T. Rowe Price expands in Asia

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2021
... to lead the new Shanghai office. Dai has worked as a research analyst in T. Rowe Price's Equity Division covering Asian stocks in Hong Kong and in the firm's headquarters in the US. T. Rowe Price head of international equity and co-head of global equity ...

Senator calls for super funds to stop shorting

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2021
... securities lending in Australia and still participates in the practice in its global equities portfolios. QSuper stopped lending stocks in April 2020. The fund clarified in its 2020 annual members' meeting that it previously had a securities lending ...