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Allan Gray exposes 'hateful eight' bubble threat

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2025
... Investments investment forum, noted that the Hateful Eight generated a 35.6% return over the past year, while the remaining 292 stocks in the ASX 300 scraped together 2.2%. It's the same story over the past three years as well, he said, with the Hateful ...

GAM nabs Janus Henderson equities team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
... remain consistent with its past investment style, managing concentrated, high-conviction portfolios of approximately 30 stocks using what he calls their "All-in" framework. This approach combines expected earnings growth, cash return and valuation change ...

CFS awards global equities mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2025
... menu. Celeste is reportedly shutting after 27 years in operation. The small- and mid-cap fund manager specialised in ASX stocks and is 100% owned by its employees. In 2018, Pacific Current Group (PAC) offloaded its stake in the Sydney-based manager ...

Why emotions, cash derail good investments

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2025
... some of the key risks that are out there today," she said. So, how do investors protect their portfolio in the event both stocks and bonds are falling? "That's what 2022 reminded us. Neither stocks nor bonds like inflation and that's when we ...

DeepSeek, Alibaba: Silver linings for emerging markets strategy

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2025
... geopolitical risks, there'll be a slightly higher hurdle rate," she notes. This is the case for Taiwan and China. "For their stocks to look as attractive, they need to bring in a bit more to compensate for the fact that there's more volatility ...

Size of super impacting capital markets

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2025
... eye on. That is another form of vertical integration, which is a risk when you have all that capital chasing all the big stocks, you get more and more value concentrated into the large cap stocks," Salis said. "It comes into the question of accessibility. ...

Super funds covet more global equities: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2025
... research for Australia and New Zealand Jason Steed, shows super funds are collectively underweight in US mega-cap technology stocks or the Magnificent 7. "The growth of super funds' global equities portfolios, both in absolute size and as a percentage ...

Inside Colonial First State's fund manager selection overhaul

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2025
... the market in its totality, at least from a risk management perspective, and are more open to investing in all types of stocks. For example, he cited a deep value manager, previously in the portfolio, whose performance profile was one where "when they ...

Labor vs Liberal: Which government is better for Australian stocks?

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025
Labor has secured 93 of the 150 seats up for grabs in the House of Representatives, with a few still in doubt - more than Kevin Rudd or Bob Hawke claimed in their maiden election victories - but does this historic win over the Coalition spell bad news ...

US financial market dominance can't last indefinitely: MSCI

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025
... the developed world saw effectively zero earnings growth. It's also true, he said, that the multiples of US mega-cap stocks - of which there are fewer than 40 companies, including the Magnificent Seven, have traded at more than twice that of emerging ...