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Hunter Hall slams exit proposal

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2017
... shareholders. Doing this would, in turn, "impact the portfolio with transaction costs, potential price liquidity discounts for some stocks and tax consequences. These costs would be borne by all shareholders, not just those that might choose to exit ...

Alpha generation to trump in 2017

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2017
... period where fundamentals are driving security prices, as evidenced by higher dispersion "and lower correlations across stocks and bonds." "This is critical for fundamentally-based managers, like stock pickers, that can demonstrate alpha generation on ...

Saxo revamps margin trading facility

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JAN 2017
... multiple listed assets as collateral for margin trades. Under the new arrangement, clients can now use existing physical stocks, bonds and ETFs for trades including contracts for difference, foreign exchange, futures and options, rather adding extra ...

Will 2017 be a mirror image of 2016?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 JAN 2017
... hypnotized that nothing can go wrong". Bond market king Bill Gross echoed Gundlach view, "I don't like bonds; I don't like most stocks; I don't like private equity..." Well, at least he's made good on not liking bonds. They're joined by billionaire investor ...

Property not the answer for passive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 6 JAN 2017
... the central point of a new white paper published by Montgomery Investment Management warning investors in property and stocks of the looming threat of inferior returns. Instead, the investment firm suggests it might be time for passive equity and property ...

Fintech grows through adviser platform

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 DEC 2016
... Sid Sahgal said there are advisers are still using manual trading systems or paper and telephones to buy and sell global stocks. "Our platform features paperless client on-boarding, one integrated trading platform for global and domestic stocks, powerful ...

Trump to boost Aussie commodities

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 DEC 2016
... the $24 billion Australian ETP market heading into 2017. The report suggests that, given the strong performance of energy stocks during periods of fiscal growth, the massive investment in US infrastructure promised by Trump stands to have a positive ...

APAC multi-asset strategies receive tick

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2016
... improvement. The study analysed monthly performance figures of Saxo's APAC clients trading leveraged securities such as CFDs, FX, stocks, futures and others between January 2013 and May 2016. The sample included account balances of more than EUR 6000 ...

Super fund awards emerging markets mandate

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2016
... emerging markets strategy with an industry superannuation fund. The EM strategy includes securities primarily selected from stocks traded in all countries represented in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, which is also the benchmark. ClariVest was recently ...

BT Panorama to house Hunter Hall offerings

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2016
... platform reach as a result of advisor and investor demand. "We are a true to label value investor, always on the hunt for stocks selling at a discount to the net present value of future cash flows - these few and far between but we find them. The result ...