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InvestSMART to launch active ETF

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2018
... trading under the ticker code INIF, will mirror InvestSMART's Australian Equity Income strategy. It will hold up to 30 stocks with a bias towards undervalued companies, which is why the portfolio is underweight Australian banks. InvestSMART believes ...

RECAP: Advice in the Royal Commission spotlight (Days 6- 9)

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
... clients in the dark Royal Commission can only mean more red tape: Poll Royal Commission presents clear downside for bank stocks

Royal Commission bad for super: Switzer

ALEX BURKE, JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
... who thought they were hard done by," the media spectacle surrounding the hearings would have deleterious effect on bank stocks. "I know this sounds so gratuitous but our super funds make us accessories before the fact," he said. "We expected great returns ...

ANU to recalibrate divestment policy

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
... Search, Iluka Resources, Sandfire, Sirius, Newcrest and Independence Group. And the divestment was well timed as several of stocks they divested from soon experienced dramatic price falls. However since then ANU's Australian equities portfolio, which ...

SSGA launches ESG-heavy strategy for Aussie instos

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2018
... allocates more to companies with better overall ESG profiles and excludes tobacco, controversial weapons, nuclear weapons, and stocks flagged as not adhering to international norms and principles like the UN Declaration of Human Rights. SSGA head of ...

High profile adviser under fire

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2018
... 'The Today Show'. In their initial meeting, McKenna explained to Henderson she was interested in investing in blue-chip stocks and had received pre-approval for a quite substantial loan with which she wanted to buy an investment property. At the time ...

Unions lobby super sector to cut big bank, AMP ties

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2018
... in Australian shares. Industry funds alone held about $120 billion and it suggests about $40-50 billion invested in bank stocks comes from these super funds. Supporting this, a 2017 Rainmaker pilot study of portfolio holdings disclosure by super funds ...

Royal Commission presents clear downside for bank stocks

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2018
... structures are also likely to ultimately affect bank earnings. As a result, the investment case in the medium term for bank stocks as well as AMP looks weak with asymmetric risks to the downside and limited upside."

Beer tap runs dry for $2 billion manager

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2018
A $2 billion manager - which at one point had 22% of its total equities portfolio invested in beer stocks - sold off the last of its positions in the brewing industry as it sees valuations peaking. Brewing company valuations shot up as a wave of consolidations ...

Fintech launches active trading platform with no monthly fees

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2018
... them to operate with similar capabilities to what large institutions have," Smoker said. SaxoTraderPRO allows trading of stocks, bonds, ETFs CFDs, futures, options, forex and other asset classes on compatible multi-screen Windows and Mac computers. Traders ...