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Most traded stocks in the first half of the year revealed

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2025
... contrast". "During the past financial year, individual retail investors tended to buy mining stocks, taking profits in some bank stocks," Hill said. "In stark contrast, advisers relied on a handful of blue chips and a broad range of exchange traded funds ...

Super funds covet more global equities: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2025
... billion worth of domestic bank equity by super funds. "Historically, super funds have shown a tendency of purchasing bank stocks during periods of crises, while tempering their purchases during rallies and periods of outperformance. This pattern persisted ...

WAM tells investors it 'got the call wrong'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2024
... Entertainment and troubled glass bottles and cans maker Orora. Haupt also said they missed out on a dazzling rally in bank stocks. "Sometimes we play with fire, and when we play with fire occasionally we get burnt," Ayoub said. "We got that one wrong ...

ASX shifts slightly on Credit Suisse, First Republic

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2023
... Suisse. "That helped ease fears of the global banking crisis and we saw Credit Suisse shares jump 19.2% with European bank stocks up 1.1% on the back of that news," he said. The liquidity backstop provided by the SNB was complemented by the European ...

Sunsuper adds long/short to Aussie equities

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020
... cap]. So it becomes very difficult to express a negative view on the stock [by just going underweight]." Barnes cites bank stocks and BHP or RIO as examples, where an underweight would allow the manager to express their negative view strongly as they ...

Macquarie shares halve in COVID-19 sell-off

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2020
... analyst Kyle Rodda told Financial Standard financials have been hit here just as much as they have globally. "The bank stocks have been hit pretty hard as the market prices in a low interest rate regime here and across the globe," he said. "Effectively ...

ASIC dismisses Royal Commission insider trading reports

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2019
... the Royal Commission's final report. This comes after the Labor party suggested insider trading was responsible for bank stocks rising immediately on the back of Kenneth Hayne's report. Senator Peter Whish-Wilson asked if ASIC was investigating "whether ...

Banks move to derisk, workforces shrink

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2019
... trillion superannuation industry. The average super fund holds about a quarter of its Australian equities investments in bank stocks, according to Rainmaker executive director of research and compliance Alex Dunnin. Imagine the impact if super funds ...

Royal Commission to suppress bank stocks

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
... Asset Management chief investment officer Mark Arnold says the Brisbane-based fund manager does not invest in any bank stocks in its Aussie portfolios. "The reason for that is we are going into a deleveraging period," he told Financial Standard. This ...

Labour and housing drive rate sentiment

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2019
... portfolio manager Aaron Binsted, who is gearing for a rate cut. "We have come down from a peak of 12% allocation to bank stocks to none in the last quarter [in the $10 million Defensive Australian Equities Fund] because we are concerned that if the housing ...
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