Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 971 - 980 of 2752 results for "Diversified"

Hedge fund with zero correlation to equities to launch

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2020
... offer that, in all markets conditions. "This should provide investors with confidence in our ability to keep them diversified at the times when it really matters," he added. NN 2 Capital currently has four strategies, but is testing for further oppor ...

ESG-themed funds fall short of expectations

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2020
... designation. "AXA IM Sustainable Equity uses a systematic low volatility and quality-factor investing process for a strongly diversified portfolio that incorporates lower carbon-risk scoring but does not totally eliminate fossil-fuel exposure," the Morningstar ...

How Cbus is servicing early release requests

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020
... contributions and, pleasingly, from members who moved to cash as the markets fell but have started to move back into diversified options now. Fok said Cbus hasn't sold any unlisted assets to service the ERS requests. "We haven't changed any of ...

Colonial First State closes global fund

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020
Colonial First State has terminated a $19.5 million diversified fund, after it returned -11.7% in the first three months of the year. The Acadian Diversified Alpha fund will no longer be available to investors, with switches and redemptions from the ...

Junk by name, junk by nature?

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... reason junk bonds are attractively priced at the moment, he warned. "High yield debt, in general, is not that well diversified; it's dominated by energy companies and oil companies in particular," Miller said. They are also generally illiquid, especially ...

More super funds will merge: QMV

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... travel, airlines or hospitality. In these industries where so many have been made unemployed, super funds without diversified member bases will face several problems at once - they will lose SG contributions, have fewer new members joining and have a ...

Financial services boards overpaid: Research

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... report reveals shareholders in firms such as Magellan and Afterpay are getting good value. However, when it comes to diversified financials, the story is a little bleaker, with the sector ranked second for overpaying its board. Banks, meanwhile, are ...

Aussie equities winners, losers revealed

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2020
... particularly in rapidly evolving economic conditions," the research house said. "Smaller businesses typically have less diversified revenue sources, are more susceptible to idiosyncratic shocks (that is, during a global pandemic), and have greater reliance ...

BNY Mellon IM boutique heads for ASX mFunds

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... multi-asset fund on the ASX's mFunds marketplace, in a first for BNY Mellon's boutique partners. The Insight Diversified Inflation Plus Fund invests across equities, bonds, real assets and total return strategies, targeting long-term returns ...

Industry fund revalues unlisted assets

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... assumptions when modelling the impact of the government's Early Release Scheme (ERS), and said its options would remain diversified even in the worst case. "Our internal data team used a conservative number of approximately 5% of funds under management ...