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ASX will cut clearing fees if monopoly extended

MARK SMITH | TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2015

... approximately $6.8 million per annum. ASX has defended the single infrastructure by saying the model is common in Canada, the US, Brazil and Asia - though not in Europe. It claims the model is more efficient and more transparent than the alternatives ...

Ruble trouble

BENJAMIN ONG | MONDAY, 10 NOV 2014

... European Central Bank (ECB) wants to lessen the threat of deflation... but not Russia. For Russia, like its BRIC amigo - Brazil - faces stagflation. Growth in Russia's economy slowed to a mere 0.2% in the year to the third quarter (from 2.0% at the end ...

Real stagflation

BENJAMIN ONG | FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014

... The Bovespa index dropped by 2.8%. Rightly or wrongly, the disappointment over the election outcome is understandable. Brazil's economy has slowed and is now in recession since Rousseff assumed the presidency in January 2011, inflation has risen and ...

China's mean regression

BENJAMIN ONG | TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2014

... average (of about 2% growth per year in real GDP per person)". "Slowdowns often occur despite seemingly sound prospects: both Brazil in 1980 and Japan in 1991 looked like juggernauts, yet they managed scarcely any growth at all in real GDP per person ...

How to understand emerging markets

STAFF WRITER | THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014

The emerging markets investment landscape is best understood in terms of country blocs that perform similarly as the macro environment evolves, according to Investec Asset Management Global Strategist, Dr Michael Power. Power presented an analogy where ...

Stagflation is real in Brazil

BENJAMIN ONG | WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014

... found" in central banks' forward guidance of easy money going forward. But it's not only Wall Street that's benefitting, Brazil's stock market is too - and then some. Gauging from the recent performance of Brazil's stock market, the economy of the B ...

China's winning

BENJAMIN ONG | TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014

... funding costs for small firms and farmers even though real interest rates in China still remain lower than they are in Brazil, Russia and India, China's BRIC colleagues. The interest rate for those sectors is at 2.25%, 375 basis points lower than the ...

Punishing Putin (harder)

BENJAMIN ONG | WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014

... from attending the negotiations and eventual launched of the BRICS' "New Development Bank (NDB) -- Putin told reporters in Brazil that: "Sanctions have a boomerang effect and without any doubt they will push U.S.-Russian relations into a dead end, and ...

Life's a bargain

BENJAMIN ONG | FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014

... from attending the negotiations and eventual launched of the BRICS' "New Development Bank (NDB), Putin told reporters in Brazil that, "Sanctions have a boomerang effect and without any doubt they will push U.S.-Russian relations into a dead end, and ...

A BRICS R5 Bank is born

BENJAMIN ONG | THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2014

... one day we'll get to the end of this "considerable period". But "no woman, no cry", more money's coming for the BRICS - Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa - has just built what I call the "R5 - renminbi, rupee, rubble, real, rand - Bank". Which ...

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More work to do on reportable situations compliance, ASIC says

JAMIE WILLIAMSON

Licensees are generally slow to report to ASIC because of deficient internal processes and poor monitoring of compliance with the reportable situations regime, a review found.

Centrepoint Alliance launches long-awaited IconiQ platform

ELIZA BAVIN

Centrepoint Alliance and FNZ have partnered to launch the IconiQ investment platform and the IconiQ SMA.

GDP grows but still slow: 'Confirms our worst fears'

ELIZA BAVIN

Australian GDP rose for the 12th consecutive quarter but continues to slow.

Tyndall AM head of Aussie equities to retire

JAMIE WILLIAMSON

Brad Potter is retiring as Tyndall Asset Management's head of Australian equities, with his replacement confirmed.

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