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Perpetual equities fund cops ratings downgrade

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2020
... downgraded to bronze at Morningstar. The Perpetual Wholesale Concentrated Growth Equity Fund invests in 20 to 45 Australian stocks, chosen with a value and balance sheet focus - similar to Perpetual's flagship Australian shares fund. However, this fund ...

Magellan chief backs health startup

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2020
... MFG and units in Magellan-owned funds. "I've invested my own money for some time as well...So I've got a range of stocks and I've got to be a little careful in that because obviously conflicts start to creep in. So a lot of what I have been ...

Death of value investing a myth: Realindex

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020
The rise of a small handful of growth stocks is creating a distortion and obscuring the true performance of value investing in global markets, according to Realindex. In a research paper titled Value is dead, long live value, Realindex quantitative ...

Disruption not sustainable: Schroders

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2020
Stocks that have the ability to disrupt certain sectors like technology are likely to be disrupted themselves, according to Schroders. Speaking at the Morningstar Investment Conference, Schroders head of Australian equities Martin Conlon said sectors ...

Ausbil drops fees on global equities fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2020
... management fee to 0.75% per year and removed both the RE fee and normal capped expenses. The fund holds a portfolio of about 220 stocks, using a quantitative multi-factor based model on the SRI universe. It has had a good year of performance, returning ...

Super funds lag on disclosure

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2020
... ANZ, Woolworths, Rio Tinto and Telstra appearing among the top 10 holdings of almost all super funds. Here, the top 10 stocks account for about 35% of each funds' value in the asset class. Super funds own about 20% of the banking sector, Rainmaker ...

New deputy Aussie equities head at Aberdeen Standard

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2020
... Natalie Tam is moving into the role after 15 years on the team. She first joined Aberdeen as an analyst covering media stocks in 2005 from Deutsche. Prior to this, she worked at Rothschild in investment banking, Coca Cola Amatil in corporate strategy ...

Shariah-compliant ETF launches

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2020
... High Quality Fund. AMAL is managed by Sanlam's head of global equities Pieter Fourie and his team of six. Some of the stocks in its holdings are: Johnson & Johnson, Novartis, Mondelez, Samsung and Sanofi. Investment screening is conducted in line ...

GMO launches global equities fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2020
... For the last three calendar years, the portfolio beat both the benchmarks. Nearly 45% of the portfolio was invested in 10 stocks: Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, UnitedHealth Group, Accenture, Coca-Cola, Oracle, Johnson & Johnson, Facebook and Medtronic. ...

Sunsuper adds long/short to Aussie equities

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020
... cap]. So it becomes very difficult to express a negative view on the stock [by just going underweight]." Barnes cites bank stocks and BHP or RIO as examples, where an underweight would allow the manager to express their negative view strongly as they ...