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Colonial First State closes global fund

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020
... section of equities through our proprietary multi-factor stock selection process". The strategy shorted weak high-beta stocks and bought low-beta stocks with strong fundamentals in developed markets, investing in both equities and derivatives. Over the ...

Aussie analysts share COVID-19 investment tips

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... bullish recently is that we expect the market to get a bit of a bump as economies reopen." Investors won't be able to buy stocks at a bargain when things go back to normal, he warned. "By the time we're all heading back to work it will be too ...

Super CIOs defend illiquid assets

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... the US has had a recession every decade since 1770. "The trigger is unusual, but having a recession and a bear market in stocks is part and parcel of what we all live with," Delaney said. "And for people who've got money in superannuation, they'll ...

Global manager reduces fees on flagship fund

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... gold rating from Morningstar, the firm said. As of March 17, T. Rowe Price's global equities fund was invested in 150 stocks across 30 countries.

Aussie equities winners, losers revealed

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2020
... best stock-pickers in the Australian market, judiciously avoiding the expensive defensives and highly cyclical oil/mining stocks." Over the past few years, many institutional and retail investors had started to move away from domestic active management ...

ESG investing now mainstream: deVere

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... in the short-term, have also helped to drive interest in ESG investments. "This is because ESG funds circumnavigate oil stocks, so their performance will not be adversely impacted by the fall in share prices," Green explained. The COVID-19 crisis had ...

ESG performing positively: MSCI

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... part of the indexes' Q1 2020 performance was attributable to the systematic tilt of these indexes toward higher ESG-rated stocks, similar to what we observed over the past five years," MSCI said. "The COVID-19 outbreak - while over a very short term ...

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 ...

Bitcoin bonanza amid COVID-19 crisis

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
... invested). "A large number of investors have seen this as an excellent opportunity to buy potentially oversold and discounted stocks and assets, and have helped the market recover some lost ground." While the S&P 500 has lifted 25% since its March lows ...

The next big short

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... very dangerous," he said. "Eventually I think the market will wake up one way or another to discover that all of these stocks are going higher and higher, and not because of any fundamental value in the business." Companies that enter an index like the ...