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Airlie backs financials but wary on banks

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2018
... Williams said. This said, about one-quarter (23%) of the fund's concentrated portfolio is in financials - it is about six stocks in a fund which currently manages 26 active investments. Three of its top 10 investment ideas over the next three to ...

New S&P indices factor in future carbon price risks

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2018
... the future impact of carbon prices on stock prices. The S&P carbon price risk adjusted indices will be constructed from stocks in indices like the S&P 500, S&P Asia Pacific LargeMidCap, S&P developed LargeMidCap. The indices are the first of their kind. ...

Investor interest in long-short strategies surging: Zenith

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2018
... funds invest in shares just like long-only equity funds. However, they are also equipped with the ability to "short sell" stocks. Short selling allows investors to profit when stocks or markets decline - hence the appeal to investors in times of market ...

Boutique fund manager bolsters investment team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2018
... with management of the SGH20 Fund - a concentrated, high conviction Australian Equities portfolio which comprises 15-25 stocks. SG Hiscock managing director Stephen Hiscock said he is delighted to have attracted someone of Kordick's calibre. "Michael ...

Equal weight portfolios outperform: VanEck

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018
Portfolios that assign equal weighting to individual stocks outperform portfolios with market cap-weighted allocations, according to VanEck. In a recently published research paper, VanEck gives a mathematical analysis of this, based on its equally-weighted ...

Class streamlines investment solution

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2018
... mobile app in 2016, aiming to assist advisers make better informed decisions. Simply Wall St analyses more than 72,000 stocks in Asia, the US and UK and examines investment portfolios to identify underlying strengths and weaknesses. At the time, Class ...

China A-shares to shake up EM funds

KARREN VERGARA AND DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2018
... with Stock Connect, will stick to the 'foreign darlings' where foreign exposure is concentrated around a small handful of stocks." When the A-shares inclusion was announced a year ago, it immediately triggered interest from foreign investors wanting ...

BAT stocks worse than FANGs: SSGA

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2018
Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent, the emerging-market equivalents of FANG stocks are even more expensive, higher risk and lower quality than their US counterparts, according to State Street Global Advisors. A May strategy highlights note written by SSGA chief ...

Outlook darkens for bank stocks

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2018
Major bank stocks could tumble up to 40% if the correction in the housing market gets more disorderly, UBS analysts led by Jonathan Mott said in a research note dated May 30. However, this "credit crunch" is not yet UBS' base case, even though it ...

Responsible investment now mainstream

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2018
... action and ESG integration into financial analysis. The most popular fund-wide screens were against tobacco and armaments stocks, to promote human rights and divest from fossil fuels. "This is playing out with many funds starting to flex their muscle ...