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Fidelity adds US equities exposure

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2019
Fidelity is eschewing technology-heavy growth areas of the market for value stocks as it increases exposure to US equities in its multi-asset strategies. Fidelity's multi-asset chief investment officer James Bateman said US value stocks are looking ...

Family office backs new boutique

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2019
... Partners and will be based in Hong Kong. Stonehorn's first fund, the Stonehorn Asia Equity Fund, will invest in about 30 Asian stocks (except Japan) without constraints of the benchmark, sector, country and market-caps. It's expected to launch in April ...

Zurich awards $100m passive mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2019
... for Zurich Group's Australian investment management arm. DWS will invest in a passively-managed portfolio of Australian stocks for Zurich Investment Management. Zurich's head of savings and investments Matthew Drennan said: "Zurich sees DWS as a valued ...

Equity investors will struggle in 2019: Baur

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2019
Global share markets will continue to struggle this year as stocks will likely plunge in the same vein as last December, Principal Global Investors' Bob Baur said. The chief global economist advised the audience at this morning's Financial Standard ...

Tough quarter for world's largest pension fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
... Australia, Q2 of FY19) as compared to $2 trillion in the same quarter the year before. The fund is heavily tilted towards stocks with about half its total assets spread in an even split across local Japanese and global equities. Domestic bonds were less ...

Royal Commission to suppress bank stocks

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
... Australian Shareholders' Association show retail investors highly favour the big four banks above other major blue-chip stocks like BHP, Telstra and IAG. For example, more than half (53%) of shareholders in CBA were mum and dad investors as at March ...

Yarra Capital adds to investment team

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2019
... Australian equities funds last year. Olivia Dalton started at Yarra Capital Management two weeks ago. She will cover industrial stocks, working alongside senior investment manager Marcus Ryan who covers real estate, healthcare and building materials. ...

IPO activity to slow down

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2019
... raises, hoping to raise $179 million, which is a 70% reduction on the $603 million sought at the end of 2017. "Materials stocks made up the majority of the proposed listings with seven listings, showing market sentiment still remains for this sector," ...

Fund managers embrace China exposure: Zenith

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2019
... increased their average exposure to China from 18% to 22% over the past 12 months. Meanwhile exposure to A-Shares, a class of stocks listed on the Shanghai and Shenzen Chinese stock exchanges, has doubled from 2% to 4%. In mid-2018 China A-Shares were ...

Robo-adviser launches high interest savings solution

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2019
A robo-adviser and fund manager is launching a savings option that would see money invested in a high-interest cash exchange-traded fund. Stockspot is offering Stockspot Savings, giving clients access to competitive interest rates and leveraging the ...