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IPOs halve off the back of COVID-19

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2020
Initial public offerings (IPOs) on the ASX reduced dramatically as a result of the pandemic in the first half of this year with just 12 new listings compared to 23 in the same period last year, according to the latest HLB Mann Judd IPO Watch report. ...

Best Australian equities funds, with risk considered

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020
... active core (tracking error of 1 to 5% per annum), high performance (tracking error of 5% plus), small caps (outside the S&P/ASX 100) considering their monthly returns for the three years ending March 2020. In addition to the headline returns, it looked ...

VanEck makes case for equal weight investing

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2020
... market cap indices. "This is illustrated well by the long-term underperforming big banks and big miners which dominate the S&P/ASX 200's top 20 stocks," Neiron said. "Equal weighting gives greater exposure to high growth outliers that are smaller ...

Plato fund to shutter

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2020
... its assets dwindle. Plato's Australian Shares Core Fund invested in Australian companies and was benchmarked to the S&P/ASX 300 Accumulation Index. It charged 41 bps per year as fees. Since inception, it had returned 0.1% higher than its benchmark ...

Small caps soar amid accelerated revolution

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... have largely outperformed. During March, small caps performed broadly in line with their larger counterparts, with the ASX Small Ordinaries Index dropping 20%, compared to the S&P/ASX 50's fall of 17.3%. Since the beginning of April, both small and ...

Pendal awards registry mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2020
ASX-listed Pendal Group has picked a new unit registry provider for $19 billion in funds under administration across its Australian funds. Mainstream Group Holdings'Australian business has entered a five-plus-five-year agreement with Pendal to provide ...

Investors pile into companies on life support

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
News that the Australian economy may be opening sooner than previously thought saw the S&P/ASX 200 surge on Monday, with investors buying into heavily sold-off sectors. Today, markets have dropped on fears of a second wave, with news of fresh cases ...

Pendal's product pipeline for 2020

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2020
Pendal Group's seed capital spending for new funds was about 16% lower in the year ending March but the ASX-listed manager has fresh products in the works. At March end, Pendal had $199.7 million in total seed capital investments across 14 funds, down ...

Cbus ready to deploy cash

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... could play in the economy. Fok said the COVID-19 downturn gave Cbus the opportunity to participate in eight equity raises by ASX-listed companies, three of which were new names. It also includes some small caps. "We tend to participate where we have ...

How early release impacts the ASX

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... research house Rainmaker Information, at the end of 2019, Australia's superannuation funds owned approximately 38% of the ASX (across not for profit, retail and SMSFs), up from 26% a decade ago. Industry funds hold just 8% of the ASX, the research house ...