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Today

Carol Schwartz, Natasha Stott Despoja, Elana Rubin AM and Caroline Gurney CEO, Future Generation at the Future Generation Women Showcase Event.

Top female fund managers share their stock picks

Future Generation Women fund managers from Minotaur, First Sentier and ECP share their top picks, ranging from technology companies to European banks.

Yesterday

Jamie Pherous of Corporate Travel is ever the optimist.

ECP, Bennelong returns slump amid big Corporate Travel write-downs

The prominent fund managers have been among the biggest backers of the travel company whose shares have been suspended since August over accounting issues.

This Month

John Hempton’s Bronte Capital has over 500 short positions.

Bronte Capital bounces back: ‘Some clients thought we were idiots’

The Sydney-based hedge fund, led by veteran stock-picker John Hempton, managed to beat the market last month after a bruising year.

Balmoral Investors’ portfolio manager Wik Farwerck.

Here’s an ASX stock that is tipped to soar on rising gas prices

Balmoral Investors’ Wik Farwerck, a former stock picker at First Sentier, shares why he thinks Amplitude Energy is “attractively priced” and set to re-rate.

QVG co-founder Chris Prunty (left) and portfolio manager Josh Clark.

Hedge fund QVG to profit from shorting these two ASX stocks

The Sydney-based money manager told investors in its latest update that its secretive short book had benefited from betting against defence and travel stocks.

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Jun Bei Liu, founder and fund manager at Ten Cap says copper is an exciting area in resources.

Buy copper and sell property: Here are Jun Bei Liu’s trades for 2026

The hedge fund manager says the industrial metal is the most exciting area in resources and explains why she is cautious about listed real estate stocks.

November

Glen Finegan.

Fund says it’s time to cash out of this AI market darling

Skerryvore’s Glen Finegan has been trimming his holdings in one tech stock that has rocketed 35 per cent this year.

Some of the biggest backers behind blood plasma giant CSL have been hit by large positions in the stock.

CSL rout hits Australia’s biggest blue-chip investors

Some of Australia’s biggest fund managers have been among the most exposed to the sharp decline in CSL’s shares.

UBS expects the resources sector to drive double-digit earnings growth in the Australian sharemarket.

UBS tips ASX to rally in 2026 on a mining resurgence

The broker expects the S&P/ASX 200 Index to climb to 8900 by the end of the next calendar year, a near 6 per cent rise from current levels.

Totus Capital’s Ben McGarry.

Totus joins hedge funds betting on Light & Wonder re-rating

The poker machine maker hit the hedge fund’s performance last month, but Totus is betting on a wave of passive money to drive the share price higher.

1851 Capital’s Matthew Nicholas.

This heavily shorted ASX stock is tipped to go on a tear

1851 Capital’s Matthew Nicholas talks IPOs, Flight Centre and names one car dealer that has been largely ignored by the market, until now.

Arvid Streimann quit Magellan after 11 years at the money manager.

Magellan top stock picker exits amid probe into workplace relationship

Arvid Streimann had been with the funds management giant for more than a decade and was one of its key investors, overseeing its flagship global strategy.

Growth is great but it’s resilience that is the real flex for investors

The rolling crises of the past few decades challenge the fundamental tenets of investment theory, writes Future Fund chief executive Raphael Arndt.

Monday Fundie Minotaur Capital portfolio manager Armina Rosenberg.

How Armina Rosenberg is outperforming the market darlings

The co-founder of Minotaur Capital has beaten the market by looking away from the US. She names an unknown pharmaceutical company and a low-cost airline as stocks to watch.

The 9 hottest stock tips from this year’s Sohn fund managers

Defying markets gloom, top investment chiefs pitched their best global ideas, from an “OG in AI” to a retirement giant.

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DroneShield is the latest ASX darling to hit a wall of selling.

Investors call time on small cap ‘heroes’ as DroneShield, Life360 dive

A brutal correction in some of the sharemarket’s hottest stocks, including Life360, is gathering momentum and unleashing a wave of profit-taking by investors.

Around $25 billion was erased from CBA’s market value this week.

CBA still the ‘premier bank’ for fundies despite $25b wipeout

Investors are blaming the brutal sell-off on lofty valuations rather than a major problem at Australia’s biggest bank.

Ben Hensman portfolio manager of Square Pegs Global Tech Fund.

Square Peg’s Ben Hensman names top picks in a hot tech sector

The Melbourne portfolio manager will make his debut at Sohn Hearts & Minds in Sydney and explains what he looks for when investing in a tech firm. It all starts with the founder.

Ore transported at Northern Star Resources’s mine near Kalgoorlie. Gold miners have seen their market capitalisations soar as the price of the commodity has jumped.

Soaring gold stocks are taking over the ASX’s major indices

The S&P/ASX 200 is set to welcome at least two producers of the precious metal next month, a move expected to push out major names like Inghams and HMC Capital.

October

Under pressure: CSL shares have slumped almost 40 per cent this year.

CSL’s largest investors bloodied but unshaken after sell-off

Shareholders such as DNR Capital have suffered from a plunging share price, but they explain why they’re sticking with the former market darling.

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