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Retail investors want true hedge fund exposure: Morningstar

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2025
... Morningstar found, is the heightened difficulty of achieving effective diversification in an environment where traditional stocks and bonds are increasingly moving in tandem. "Empirical evidence shows a statistically significant relationship between ...

Alphinity takes global fund to UK, Europe

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2025
... equity fund. The Alphinity Global Equity Fund offers investors exposure to a high conviction portfolio targeting 25-30 stocks, diversified across sectors and regions. The Alphinity team in Australia has been running the global equity strategy since 2015. ...

CFS taps JPMAM for global strategies mandates

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2025
... approach," CFS chief investment officer Jonathan Armitage said. JPMAM's global and emerging market strategies cover over 2500 stocks with a focus on long-term fundamentals. "Their strategies provide access to high-conviction stock ideas supported by ...

Feature: Digital advice | Sleeping giant

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2025
About three years ago, robo-advisers, one by one, began dropping like flies. The likes of Six Park, Upstreet and Advice Intelligence either folded or were acquired. Even Ellerston Capital's ethically based robo-adviser, which launched in early 2023 ...

Stockspot reduces fees to increase accessibility

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2025
Stockspot is making what it calls its biggest changes since launching, including lowering monthly fees for some accounts to $1 per month, and other initiatives aimed at making investing more accessible. Stockspot now charges only $1 a month for balances ...

Private markets, asset class correlations upending 60-40 portfolio

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2025
... turned very positive and moderated a little bit," he told a GSFM event in Sydney. Marshall points to the correlation of stocks within the top S&P500 increasing as well as correlation within high yield. "It makes it harder to build diversified, single-asset ...

FEATURE: Back in action

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2025
... arose was many investors were taking out margin loans and investing the money into only a handful - if that - of major stocks. So, in the event that one or more of those stocks lost value, so too did the investor and the debt stacked up. "Margin lending ...

Fewer global equity managers underperform: SPIVA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2025
... accounted for over 70% of the S&P World Index by index weight at the year's starting point, but less than 70% by count; the US stocks' relatively poor performance enabled a larger number of non-US stocks to outperform the index," the report shows. Some ...

FEATURE: Hyped up

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2025
... investment theme. In the 90s, for example, Japan dominated, while the 70s were defined by booming demand in oil and energy stocks. The last 10 years saw a torrent of investor capital flood the US market, bolstering its 'exceptionalism' status ...

ART raises stake in Tabcorp

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2025
... online gambling websites, platforms or mobile applications. ART's Socially Conscious option did not hold any gambling stocks listed on the ASX as at 31 December 2024. Gambling stocks have surged in recent years alongside an increase in sports betting. ...