EQUITIES

Funds management

Currency hedging has delivered better results for fixed income investors, as opposed to equity investors, according to research from Dimensional....

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Funds management

Investors should consider increasing their equities allocation to the technology sector as a means of dealing with heightened uncertainty and the likely increased market ...

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Funds management

Pengana chief investment officer Rhett Kessler said he was “vomit buying” after lowering his Australian equities fund’s cash weighting as a response to the market downtur...

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Funds management

Dividend cuts during reporting season is an important reminder that a long-term outlook is required for generating income from equities, according to First Sentier Invest...

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Superannuation

Investors are likely to place themselves in ‘immense risk’ in the future as their portfolios will need to be 100% allocated to equities if they want to make returns from ...

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Funds management

The typical 60/40 split for equities and bonds is at risk in the current environment and financial advisers are putting clients at risk by sticking with them, according t...

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Funds management

As this week marks five years since the launch of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, how have Australian sustainability funds performed over that period?...

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Funds management

Despite tech stocks leading the US markets this year, Pengana has now completely exited large-cap technology companies in its International fund....

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Funds management

Despite the average Australian equity fund returning 41% over the last five years, fears of underperformance and hidden fees are the biggest challenges for firms to dispe...

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Funds management

The country has fallen behind both developed and emerging market regions when it comes to equity performance....

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Funds management

A high weighting to consumer discretionary stocks has worked in favour of Australian equity funds with those funds significantly outperforming their peers and two reporti...

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Funds management

The ASX Small Ordinaries returned 7.25% in August and one fund has returned 23% over the past year. ...

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Financial planning

Investors need to resist being ruled by their emotions when it comes to market especially in times when investor confidence is low....

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Funds management

The upcoming earnings season will be the first opportunity to see the damage COVID-19 has inflicted on firms, according to Pengana....

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Tools & guides

With many fixed income options yielding less than 0%, core alternatives can provide stable income with a low correlation to equities, writes Pulkit Sharma and Jason DeSen...

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