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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 ...

NZ blacklists fossil fuels from super

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2020
... Superannuation Fund adopted a climate change investment strategy that resulted in it removing more than $3 billion worth of stocks that exceed thresholds for either emissions intensity or fossil fuel reserves, without negatively affecting performance," ...

New ETF for ASX All Tech Index

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2020
... always been an opportunity to look at the overall cost," Vynokur said. BetaShares has ETFs tracking the NASDAQ, Asian tech stocks, and now, the ASX's all tech sector. For ATEC, it sees potential demand from overseas investors looking to access Australian ...

Carbon footpath important, not footprint: AXA

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2020
... to assess a company's carbon footpath. "Using our 'E' scores instead of carbon intensity to 'de-carbonise' a basket of stocks is just one way we can identify the companies that have done more to improve emissions by beginning to transition before others ...

All-tech index offers new opps in financial advice

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020
... that their clients already have a good exposure to the growth of the tech sector through their investments in global tech stocks. For example, financial advisers already have access to tech ETFs such as the BetaShares NASDAQ 100 ETF, Morningstar Global ...

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 ...

New Aussie ETF to invest in FAANGs

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020
... companies including Facebook, Apple, Amazon and Google which together returned 45% last year. The ETF's will hold 10 stocks in equal weighting, adding names such as Tesla, Netflix and Baidu to the usual technology stocks. It starts trading on the ...

Factor investing, sustainability a perfect match

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2020
... multi-factor based strategies can still produce results, as "integrating these two investment drivers ensures that sustainable stocks with attractive valuation, sound quality, strong momentum and positive analyst revisions are chosen". Robeco said that ...

The sick short: Banking big on the coronavirus

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2020
... where they see global growth going in the year ahead," he said. "In Australia, we are seeing a lot of short interest in stocks tied to the Chinese consumer, so the popular ones are your Bubs, your Blackmores, and your A2 Milks, that tend to be fairly ...

Netwealth leads the platform pack

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2020
... the space over the past year; including new CGT modelling tools, improvements in the substitution and exclusion of direct stocks, and equipping model managers with tools to better manage their models. "Platforms are aware that more financial advisers ...