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Labour and housing drive rate sentiment

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2019
... portfolio manager Aaron Binsted, who is gearing for a rate cut. "We have come down from a peak of 12% allocation to bank stocks to none in the last quarter [in the $10 million Defensive Australian Equities Fund] because we are concerned that if the housing ...

Avenir eyes insto investors

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2019
... approach to equities, after previously running capital raised mostly by word-of-mouth. The fund invests in 18 international stocks, with a longer-term focus similar to private equity, according to founder and now chief investment officer and managing ...

Young Aussies backing world's biggest brands

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2019
Young Australians are increasingly investing in the hot international stocks they know and love, latest nabtrade data shows. Latest figures from nabtrade show young traders entered the market in record numbers in 2018, with the number of Gen Z investors ...

Boutique shuts down fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2019
... Fund had about 90% of its assets invested in exchange traded funds (ETFs) while the remaining 10% were a mix of direct stocks, cash and futures. Premier's chief executive officer Brian Carley and son Damon Carley worked on the fund while One Managed ...

S&P launches new ASX small caps index

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2019
S&P Dow Jones Indices has launched a new index for small cap stocks listed on the ASX as a part of a new index series. The new S&P/ASX Small Ordinaries Select is a subset of the older S&P/ASX small ordinaries but will include only those companies that ...

8IP signs on Sanlam Private Wealth

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2019
... independent directors on 8IP's $35 million listed investment company, 8IP Emerging Companies Limited. The LIC holds 20-30 stocks with a market cap of $20 million to $500 million. Top holdings include Bounty Mining, Megaport and Cooper Energy. In 2015 ...

IRESS lead moves to Chi-X

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
... through a new security. Deutsche Bank issued a security called transferable custody receipts (TraCRs ) to invest in overseas stocks with local trading on Chi-X Australia.

UK loses £800bn in assets amid Brexit fears

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 8 JAN 2019
... no-deal scenario, MSCI executive director of risk management solutions research Thomas Verbraken estimates UK and European stocks could fall by about 25%. Various scenarios tested suggest a significant slowdown in the UK economy and large losses in its ...

Ausbil ESG strategy advances

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 3 JAN 2019
... Management. Ausbil's history predominantly lies in Australian equities. Carlsson-Sweeny points out the country's small pool of stocks means it's hard to invest only in the companies who are leaders. However, this means the asset manager is almost "naturally ...

Super funds wield bank remuneration stick

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2018
... superannuation funds on average hold between one-fifth and one-quarter of their Australian equities portfolios in bank stocks (or more than 20% of the banks' market capitalisation) - meaning they are a significant player when it comes to shareholder ...