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Xinja dabbles in US stocks

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2020
Neobank Xinja has announced plans to launch a US share trading platform Dabble, giving investors access to over 3000 stocks and exchange traded funds (ETFs). Xinja claims Dabble will make names like Tesla, Facebook, Google and Amazon accessible and ...

Long/Short fund returns 23.2% in April

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2020
An ASX-listed global equities long/short fund has returned 23.2% in April, as global bourses rebounded following their March lows. L1 Capital's Long Short fund lifted 23.16% pre-tax during the month, however the fund is still down 11.57% since the beginning ...

Markets slump as US jobless claims hit 30m

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020
... Buffett's stock-market indicator hits a record high, up 179%. The indicator measures the total market capitalisations of US stocks and divides this by quarterly GDP. It allows investors to gauge whether markets are overvalued or undervalued. The "Buffett ...

BlackRock turns optimistic on credit

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... crucial in a world starved for yield." Relative value in equities Within equities, its highest conviction overweight is to US stocks while the highest-conviction underweight is to Euro area. "We are overweight US equities for their relative quality bias ...

Global markets bleed red

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
US stocks ended in a sea of red on Wednesday as bleak economic data and corporate losses shifted what had been an almost eerily optimistic sentiment towards trade over the last few weeks. US markets had made somewhat of a recovery of late, with the ...

US faces deepest recession on record

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020
... trillion; or 15-25% of GDP. Despite this, State Street Global Market's multi-asset class strategist Marija Veitmane believes US stocks will continue to outperform. "[The] US is weeks behind many European and Asian countries in terms of fighting the coronavirus ...

Equities not that expensive: Hamish Douglass

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2020
US stocks are not expensive, despite their stretched valuations. In fact, it's all just a matter of "gravity" or the historically low interest rate environment, according to Magellan's Hamish Douglass. Speaking to a near-full crowd at the firm's ...

More US giants added to Chi-X TraCRs

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020
... stock exchange has boosted the options available to investors through its Transferable Custody Receipts, adding giant US stocks Netflix, McDonald's, Starbucks, Caterpillar and Visa to the TraCRs menu. The five new additions see the menu expand to ...

Kapstream looks to Chi-X for active ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2019
... the local ETF market. It is also looking to add additional TracRs (locally-tradeable transferable custody receipts for US stocks), including for Amazon and Berkshire Hathaway. Kapstream's distribution is done by Challenger's multi-boutique business ...

Star managers address low returns

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2018
... filings. They have also voluntarily escrowed their investment in the LIC for 10 years. What's next? The managers thinks US stocks will slow as the interest rates rise and the dollar gets stronger. Therefore, it has little net exposure to the US. ...