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Top equities managers revealed

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2020
... year). The Greencape Broadcap Fund was also one of the top performers over the past 12 months, with exposures to consumer staples and materials (and a quality/growth bias). Value managers tended to underperform over the past 12 months, with fund's Allan ...

Growth outplays value: Frontier

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2020
... discretionary sectors each delivering double digit performance. In a flip of the previous quarter, healthcare, consumer staples and utilities provided a drag on performance for the period despite being among the best performers for the full 12 months. ...

Private equity weathers COVID-19 crisis: Research

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2020
... fundamentals," Zinurova said. "Our survey and research indicates that sectors like technology, healthcare and consumer staples offer attractive opportunities from the entry pricing perspective and strong tail winds driving those sectors." One factor ...

Investors turn to China-focused strategies

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2020
... being powered by private companies in the sectors which make up the 'new economy' -namely healthcare, consumer staples, consumer discretionary and the technology sectors," he said. "The companies in the index generally have a much higher ROE ...

Chi-X releases viral TraCRs stocks

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2020
... Chi-X TraCRs complements a growing list of US names that cover the technology sector, industrials, financials and consumer staples. As more Australians attempt to take advantage of market dislocation by opening trading accounts and entering the market ...

Dividend yield set to dial down to zero

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2020
... they will be in a position to maintain or even enhance dividends. This includes the likes of Woolworths, Coles and other staples," he said. "But many other companies have experienced big losses and won't be able to pay a dividend without some sort of ...

Asset allocation in a post-pandemic world

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... outbreak, investors have been increasing their exposure to more defensive sectors; mainly utilities, healthcare and consumer staples. "The reason for this is, a lot of these companies have strong, repeatable-free cash flows, solid balance sheets and ...

Opportunities abound in COVID-19 environment

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2020
... growth," Xiradis said. "Sectors like Resources (including Rio Tinto, BHP, OZ Minerals and Independence Group), Consumer Staples (like Woolworths), Consumer Discretionary (such as JB Hi-Fi), Health Care (like CSL and ResMed), Telecommunication Services ...

Aussie analysts share COVID-19 investment tips

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... continuing to pay dividends," she said. "That's why, since we entered a bear market, utilities, healthcare, consumer staples and some materials (mining stocks) have outperformed the market. While those that are abandoning their earnings forecasts ...

Wall Street rally runs out of steam

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2020
... sectors with the largest losses have not yet seen the largest gains. Instead, defensive sectors such as healthcare, consumer staples, utilities and telcos have led the recovery, he said.