Equities

Companies that win the advocacy of their clients have a remarkable ability to increase their own value according to research from the people who invented net promoter scores.

The team at Ausbil have come up with a novel way to generate income without increasing risk or removing alpha generating opportunities.

Three of the top four performing companies in the S&P/ASX 100 over the past year operate thermal coal mines, which points to remarkable structural imbalance in the market.

Recent market turbulence has brought market neutral long short strategies into primacy, with funds able to look at companies with a clear lens and avoid taking large binary positions.

Chief Strategist Michael Hartnett at Bank of America (BofA) comically titled the July fund manager survey “I’m so bearish I’m bullish”.

The National Australia Bank’s Private Wealth division this week announced a partnership with the world’s leading index fund manager, BlackRock.

With this week’s worse-than-expected inflation numbers, all eyes are centred on the Federal Reserve, which is now expected to hike rates even more aggressively.

BetaShares this week released its Half-Year Review of the exchange traded fund industry, with a few surprises in store for one of the most popular parts of the investment sector.

A pandemic, a few supply-chain disruptions, a war in Europe, rising energy prices, climate change and soaring inflation. What more could you ask for?

The end of 2022 feels a little like a blur of problems, people and red numbers, that’s not even considering what we have just been through.

While share prices have fallen this year, Australian companies remain well-cashed-up and profits sit at record highs, which will help to drive gains next year, according to the research house.

As quickly as the world came out of the pandemic, it was faced with yet another black swan event that caused markets to capitulate, and left supply chains in disarray.