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Brace for 5% returns from global stocks

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2020
Investors in global equities should expect 4.9% in annualised returns over the next five years, which is lower than historic averages, according to Northern Trust's annual asset class return predictions. Northern Trust every year publishes its expectations ...

Women receive worse advice: Study

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2020
... across asset classes, products or geography. The advisers recommended riskier products such as complex insurance products, stocks, REITs and warrants to women, and to allocate their money to local securities. Across both sexes, advisers recommended to ...

It's not a bird or a plane; it's a new trading platform

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2020
... affiliates include Stockspot (online ETF investment adviser), Stake (trading platform allowing Australians and Kiwis to trade US stocks) and Maqro Capital, a stockmarket research and advisory firm. According to the platform's financial services guide ...

Paradice appoints head of ESG

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020
... In addition to his ESG responsibilities, Varco will also have analyst coverage responsibilities for a set of ASX-listed stocks. In his most recent role at Ausbil, he was an ESG analyst. Prior to this, he was a member of the Royal Australian Artillery ...

Female fund managers outperform men

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2020
... an all-female team. While their male counterparts prefer the financials sector, female-managed funds tend to favour tech stocks like Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and Tesla. Female-managed funds tend to have the lowest allocation to stocks like Berkshire ...

UBS appoints new sector heads for equities

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2020
... assist Tom with energy and utilities coverage, Joseph Wong also assumes lead coverage of the fuel refiner and retailer stocks."

Dividends ripe for the picking

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2020
... immense amount of money printing being undertaken by the US Federal Reserve," Hamson said. In addition, consumer staple stocks like Woolworths and Wesfarmers performed well throughout the pandemic and are expected to generate good yields in the next ...

Argo Infrastructure posts $9.3m loss, but increases dividends

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2020
... with airports, marine ports, toll roads and to a lesser extent, railways, all declining," Argo said. "Midstream energy stocks also fell, hit by a combination of supply and demand shocks in energy markets during the second half." In contrast, the communications ...

Robinhood effect steers share market

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2020
... consumer discretionary sector. She does not see the government granting early access for a third round. In terms of individual stocks, Lee predicts Appen will benefit from machine learning and artificial intelligence developments over the next five years ...

ESG investors overreact to negative news

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2020
... be justified by fundamental considerations," she writes. In light of this, it gives traders the opportunity to buy these stocks at a discount and then sell at a profit. Firms that had positive ESG news were found to be underperforming the market at the ...