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Strong credit-based strategies contenders in 2013 Hedge Fund Award nominations

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 19 AUG 2013
... hedge fund industry. This includes consistent, competitive risk-adjusted returns independent of the direction of financial markets. The 2013 Australian Hedge Funds Rock event celebrates the relationship between the Australian hedge fund industry and ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2013
... contract was down 36 points at 5074. In economic news on Friday, Reserve Bank of Australia assistant governor (Financial Markets) Guy Debelle is scheduled to speak on The Impact of Payments System and Prudential Reforms on the RBA's Provision of Liquidity ...

Study shows dark pools benefit markets at low volumes

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2013
... are below the indicative 10% tipping point found using Australian data, dark pools have a valuable niche in financial markets." The study complements a 2012 study Comerton-Forde and Putnins that suggests dark trading volumes in excess of 10% of total ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2013
... construction index (PCI) for month just ended is also due out. Meanwhile, Reserve Bank of Australia assistant governor (Financial Markets) Guy Debelle, is scheduled to take part in a panel discussion at the Funding Australia's Future Forum hosted by ...

New dark pool transparency rules introduced

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2013
... to parliament being pro-rogued that directed at better protecting investors and the stability of Australia's financial markets. Bradbury said the announcement came in response to issues identified by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2013
... Resource companies are struggling as the Australian market opens flat. The big banks, however, are rallying as financial markets continue to expect an interest rate cut in August. RBS Morgans Ipswich manager Tony Russell said that after several days ...

The game markets play

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2013
... Forget Jackie Wilson, Bipbop Benny's (Ben Bernanke) rendition of this tune last week sounded much, much better to financial markets ears. Sure, sure - and as I've always insisted - he very much sang the same song since 22 May when the word "taper" first ...

Greece what?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013
Was it good for you as it was for me? If you ask the financial markets this question, there surely would be a chorus of "yes it was!" They're still basking in the afterglow of Big Ben Bernanke's comforting words. In fact 'twas so good the Dow and the ...

CBA and HSBC change 'misleading' ads

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013
... were suitable for 'traditional deposit investors looking for a way to enhance their returns through exposure to financial markets, but are unwilling to put their capital at risk should the market not perform as expected.' ASIC viewed this statement was ...

A prince, a princess or a frog?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013
Arrrgh! This is becoming so ridiculous it's no longer funny or fun. Bob Dylan must be looking at the 2013 financial markets when he wrote the song 'Blowin' in the Wind' in 1962 and asked, "How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man?"...or ...