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2018 Financial Standard Investment Leadership Awards

JOHN DYALL  |  FRIDAY, 22 DEC 2017
... noticed the number of outperforming funds with the word "concentrated" in their name. Concentrated portfolios have fewer stocks in their portfolios and take much greater risk against whatever benchmark they are being measured against. This is called ...

Amazon still an early-stage company: Fundie

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2017
... 9% are companies created from the original rise of the internet. She said these companies are often considered as growth stocks, but ARK's research suggests more than half have "value traps". Cisco is a good example. It helped build out the backbone ...

Corporate governance LIC slashes fees, appoints portfolio manager

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2017
... with a number excluded based on governance screening. Companies are weighted based on their relative weightings after said stocks are excluded from the index. AQF's investment manager is Walsh and Company Asset Management, with whom AQF has negotiated ...

BetaShares launches Australian ESG fund

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2017
... sustainability criteria. The BetaShares Australian Sustainability ETF, traded under the ticker code FAIR, screens out ASX stocks engaged in the fossil fuel industry as well as "gambling, tobacco, armaments, uranium and nuclear energy, destruction of ...

Australia braces for Amazon impact

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2017
... sector research analyst Jim Power expressed similar sentiments, arguing that the current price weakness in Australian retail stocks is an "overreaction." "Amazon has done well in the US and UK against inefficient players, but efficient bricks-and-mortar ...

RNY unitholders left unpaid after Aurora scandal

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2017
... WAM Capital chair Geoff Wilson said this was a good price, adding: "We're effectively providing liquidity for people; the stocks haven't been trading for a number of months and people want liquidity. Aurora also bid 13.5c, but we're bidding 100% cash. ...

Aurora CFO terminated as $1m vanishes from listed trust

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 27 NOV 2017
... WAM Capital chair Geoff Wilson said this was a good price, adding: "We're effectively providing liquidity for people; the stocks haven't been trading for a number of months and people want liquidity. Aurora also bid 13.5c, but we're bidding 100% cash. ...

Superannuation savings reach $2.5 trillion

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2017
... That's more than Australia's Gross Domestic Product (around USD$1.2 trillion) or the total market capitalisation of all the stocks listed on the ASX. Total assets in MySuper products also increased significantly, up 24% to $610.2 billion. The self-managed ...

ARCO Investment Management launches new strategy

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2017
... market, ARCO co-founder and co-portfolio manager, Peter Whiting said. "We have a fundamental research approach to selecting stocks, constructing portfolios of stocks we believe are mispriced and don't reflect their underlying value. We hedge the 'long' ...

Nikko AM enters SMA partnership

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2017
... AM to access the ARK Invest SMA, which means we can offer our clients unique opportunities for investing in baskets of stocks that represent key disruptive innovation themes. Diversification in underlying exposures and key thematics is integral to our ...