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Hold super accountable for miners' actions: Future Super

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2020
... $129 billion balanced option invested in BHP and Rio Tinto respectively. The miners form more than 6% of the Australian equities exposure in First State Super's pre-mixed investment options as at March 31, while UniSuper lists both among its top Australian ...

Best equities funds to May end

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2020
... Global Growth Fund returned 35.85%. Market favourite Magellan's global fund returned 16.3% for the period. Australian equities managed funds had bleaker returns for the year as compared to their global equities counterparts. The best performers among ...

Magellan launches listed active ETF fund

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2020
... investing expertise accessible to investors through the ASX." The fund typically holds between 15 and 35 quality Australian equities, and can have a maximum cash holding of 10%. The fund has returned -16.73% over the past three months, compared to the ...

Super escapes COVID-19 hit

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2020
... by about the same in dollar terms. Explaining this, APRA figures show retail super to have 24% exposure to Australian equities compared to just 15% by not for profit (NFP) super funds. Industry funds were meanwhile insulated from listed market falls ...

Equities attractive in search for yield: Zenith

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2020
Australian equities have not been immune to the effects of COVID-19, with company earnings taking a material hit, despite the equity market rallying from its lows in mid to late March, according to Zenith Investment Partners. Zenith said a flow on effect ...

Fund managers adapt to market pain

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... from January to March, according to an updated SPIVA Australia Scorecard from S&P. In January, only 21.6% of Australian equities (general category) funds beat the benchmarks but as the year progressed, the slice of managers beating the index grew bigger. ...

How early release impacts the ASX

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... how this may be impacting the situation at the end of March, my view is that given the average super funds' Australian equities option went down 21% in the March quarter compared to the -21% ASX fall (the difference largely due fees), I'd say the equilibrium ...

Aussie equities winners, losers revealed

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2020
... gold-rated strategies Greencape High Conviction and Greencape Broadcap; silver-rated strategies Bennelong Australian Equities and Hyperion Australian Growth Companies; and bronze-rated Platypus Australian Equities. "These strategies are notable owing ...

COVID-19 ETP market winners, losers

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... Products Report showed losses across the board with Australian listed property performing the worst, losing 34%. Australian equities were down 21% and international equities down 13% (currency hedged). "Investors in the ETP market traded harder than ...

Best, worst performing Aussie equities funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2020
Morningstar has revealed the Australian equities funds that topped and tanked during the March quarter, which ended with S&P/ASX 200 falling nearly 30% from its February 20 all-time high. The quarter saw the main benchmarks for large cap Australian ...