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Australian ETF market shows strength

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2020
... become the most popular investing theme, growing 73%, due to increasing awareness after the bushfires and COVID-19. Precious metals ETFs including palladium and gold were the best performers, up 90% and 43% respectively, helping to shield investors from ...

Opportunities abound in COVID-19 environment

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2020
... highly likely to reduce dividends are travel, casinos, retail shopping and energy, he said. While financials (ex-banks), metals, discretionary healthcare and building industries are at medium risk of reducing dividends. Sectors with relatively low risk ...

Fortescue seeks to hide pricing

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020
Fortescue Metals Group has launched legal action against S&P Global and UK-based Argus Media seeking to prevent the publishing of its iron ore prices. FMG asserts that its prices are "confidential" and has asked the UK High Court to disallow the publishing ...

Aussie analysts share COVID-19 investment tips

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... businesses that are thriving in the current environment, such as Telstra, Woolworths and Coles. While companies like Fortescue Metals have an attractive dividend yield, Amir said. She recommends investors look to companies that performed well following ...

Global markets bleed red

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... be China as they are getting back to work sooner than the rest of the world - just look at iron ore price and Fortescue Metals Group - they have held up well," he said. He also suggests investors look to companies that will start to outperform when the ...

Aussie ETF industry contracts

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2020
... were sold off, with investors chasing perceivably safer markets. This rush saw short-focused equity funds and precious metals perform strongly during the month. "The top performer for the month was Palladium, followed by BetaShares' Strong Bear Hedge ...

Hermes handbags an emerging asset class for UHNWs

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020
... investors allocate about 5% of their investment portfolios to collectables, higher than their allocations to gold or precious metals at 3%, according to the Wealth Report Attitudes Survey 2020. The leading asset classes for the rich are still property ...

Tribeca portfolio manager quits

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2020
... charge. The departure comes as the strategy struggles with performance. It takes long and short positions in global equities, metals and mining, soft commodities, services and infrastructure sectors. Tribeca markets it through an unlisted fund and a ...

The sick short: Banking big on the coronavirus

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2020
... consumer discretionary sector (Treasury Wine Estates in particular), the materials sector (BHP, Rio Tinto and Fortescue Metals Group), and oil (Woodside Petroleum) as being shorting opportunities. In comparison, Conway has been recommending small-cap ...

Aussie share funds boast stellar 2019

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2020
... "On a one-year basis, those stocks were also the leading performers, in addition to Wesfarmers, Transurban and Fortescue Metals Group." The S&P/ASX MidCap 50 Index continued to outperform the S&P/ASX 300 in the December quarter, driven by Xero, BlueScope ...