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What's next for income-focused funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... appeasing investors with dividends, and Bank of Queensland already seems to have obliged by deferring its dividend. Many stocks have changed their dividend payouts. The dividend suspensions, deferrals, or cancellations spell trouble for income-focused ...

Trading platforms see record use

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... times, Burns said investors were taking a disciplined approach, with diversified portfolios proving more popular than single stocks. "That is helping them to manage their investments in a balanced way which also helps to smooth out the volatile swings ...

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 ...

Not buy time yet: Lonsec

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... the valuation perspective. There is 10 to 40% negative returns everywhere you look and negative returns for individual stocks are even further," de Pourbaix said. "We won't be selling risk assets. The question now is at what point do you take on more ...

Self-isolation to accelerate secular trends

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... Speaking with Financial Standard, Antipodes Partners chief investment officer Jacob Mitchell said the impact of COVID-19 on stocks would be far reaching, particularly those whose products will become part of the new standard workflow for millions of ...

Lonsec recommends PCFM fund

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... operates the KFC and Pizza Hut business in China. It's the largest chain restaurant operator in China." Mitchell said those stocks can be bought on multiples which he said "are pretty interesting" given their rates of growth. Part of this story is an ...

Opportunities and threats amid COVID-19 crisis

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... these companies will be in a position to move forward." Changes to travel plans had materially impacted infrastructure stocks, despite their perception as being traditionally "defensive". "Infrastructure stocks are perceived by investors as defensive ...

VanEck rejigs China A-shares ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2020
... The VanEck Vectors China CSI 300 ETF (CETF) currently tracks CSI 300 index which covers the 300 largest and most liquid stocks on China A-shares market. The Australian fund is a feeder fund that invests in a NYSE-listed VanEck fund (PEK); both were the ...

ASX suffers worst quarter in over a century

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2020
... dynamics: portfolio managers rebalancing their books to include more equities, to compensate for the huge falls in the stocks recently."

Super funds' dirty, poor performing stocks revealed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2020
... Mineral Resources, Whitehaven Coal, New Hope, Cooper Energy, Karoon, Canarvon, Senex, FAR and New Century Resources are the stocks in question. These companies, Market Forces says, are expanding the scale of the fossil fuel sector and/or relying on scenarios ...