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Boutique launches new Aussie equities fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... end were Resmed, TPG, A2, Magellan and Breville Group. "Both BKI and WHSP portfolios are generally tilted towards larger stocks. Nevertheless, of the 21 stocks in the portfolio, we own or have owned 14 companies in other strategies that we manage," said ...

Best, worst performing Aussie equities funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2020
... quality names in the healthcare and technology sectors benefited. Meanwhile, the portfolio doesn't hold any energy stocks and is substantially underweight economically sensitive financials," Morningstar said of the Hyperion fund. Unsurprisingly ...

AMP Capital shutters global equities fund for platform investors

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2020
... AllianceBernstein Investment Management Australia and had the highest sector weights to information technology and healthcare stocks. Recent performance for the platform class has been better than the MSCI World Index (Net Dividends Reinvested) in Australian ...

The domino effect: Oil falls, markets follow

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2020
... life, oil prices will likely remain on life support." The oil price crash overnight will have a flow-on effect on energy stocks, Craig said, despite their already low valuations. "Companies in the upstream of the energy supply chain will face the greatest ...

Aberdeen Standard global equities funds downgraded

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2020
... price multiples throughout 2019." Morningstar pointed to the positions the fund has initiated or topped-up in US growth stocks. "...the portfolio's trailing P/E of 22.7 sat well above the MSCI All Country World ex Australia Index's 17.3 as of February ...

A decade in the dust

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... to reconcile." Usually, at the end of a bear market, he said, investors start to buy economically sensitive or cyclical stocks, which has not happened in the last few weeks. Taw believes the crisis will shift the way we invest. "One thing I am sure of ...

Top picks for dividends during COVID-19

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
UBS says the dividend dip in Australian stocks in the next year could be worse than the Global Financial Crisis, but six stocks are poised to pay good dividends. In 2008, dividends fell by $10.5 billion (or 28%) to $44.9 billion. But this time, dividends ...

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 ...

COVID-19 damage to stretch several quarters: Natixis IM

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2020
... all-time high and 25% above the March 23rd low," he said. "While the macro risks around the outbreak remain underpriced, the stocks no longer are. "Three weeks ago, the S&P 500 traded below 14x forward earnings, which was reasonably if not compellingly ...

Big four urged to pay up dividends

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2020
... the big four to maintain capacity while still paying investors dividends. "We know many of Australia's traditional income stocks have dividend re-investment plans," Plato managing director Don Hamson said. "These companies can choose to underwrite those ...