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Coronavirus puts rocket under shorting ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2020
... through the world. The market inflows have translated into juicy inflows for three shorting ETFs, the BetaShares Australian Equities Bear Hedge Fund (ASX: BEAR), the BetaShares US Equities Strong Bear Hedge Fund - Currency Hedged (ASX: BBUS), and the ...

Best, worst equities performers in COVID-19 sell-off revealed

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2020
... sought expensive defensives over cheap cyclicals and traditional value names," Morningstar said. Prominent Australian equities large cap strategies, such as Schroder Australian Equity, Pendal Australian Share, and Perpetual Wholesale Concentrated Equity ...

Colonial First State ups cash for Aussie equities funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2020
Colonial First State is temporarily allowing three of its Australian equities funds to hold more cash than their investment mandates, as the ASX 200 reported its worst day ever yesterday. The $2.9 billion Colonial First State Wholesale Geared Share ...

Volatility hits super funds

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2020
... from the top of the market on February 20, balanced funds have fallen between 7% and 13%," Ross said. "Some Australian equities funds have fared better than others." Ross pointed out CFS' results were based on the wealth manager's latest unit ...

Aussie ETF industry contracts

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2020
... was Palladium, followed by BetaShares' Strong Bear Hedge Fund Products, BBUS (U.S. Equities) and BBOZ (Australian Equities), both of which produced gains of more than 20% as equity markets fell," BetaShares said. For the three BetaShares "short" ...

Coronavirus is an investment opportunity: Fidelity

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020
... market's darlings at discounted prices. That's according to Paul Taylor, portfolio manager of the Fidelity Australian Equities Fund. "Coronavirus will impact economies, markets and lives - but when you look at it from a market perspective, it's ...

Praemium rolls out investment tools, options

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
... ESG options, including new screening functionality for advisers and the addition of an Australian Ethical Australian equities option to its separately managed account (SMA). Praemium has moved to embed Sustainalytics ESG research and analysis within ...

Clime launches new SMA portfolios

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2020
... "Clime's investment management team collectively has more than 150 years' experience and our All Cap Australian Equities Fund was ranked in the top five performing funds in the country in 2019 by Mercer. "Bringing this capability and expertise ...

Coronavirus no match for Future Fund

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2020
... more than 29% of the fund's assets are allocated to overseas equity markets, with just 6.8% invested in Australian equities. "So at the current time the Future Fund's highly diversified, and we feel like it's very well positioned for this ...

HESTA appoints GM, internalises investments

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2020
... internalise the management of several asset classes. Steven Semczyszyn will lead development of an internalised Australian equities function at HESTA to be implemented by 2021 in his new general manager - growth role. Semczyszyn was formerly chief investment ...