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A-dollar zero point six six

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
He's either really brave or truly spaced out after smoking some heavy stuff. One thing's for sure though, Deutsche Bank's chief economist for Australia Adam Boyton has made the headlines with his fearless forecast that the Australian dollar would be ...

AMP launches integrated wealth app

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014
AMP has launched a mobile app which allows customers to access their banking, superannuation, insurance and investments. Users can also access AMP's North platform, as well as other investments and direct shares not related to AMP. The product includes ...

Crowdfunding investment platform launched

HARRY PAGE  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014
Crowdfunding has taken another step into the mainstream with the launch of a specialist platform solely focused on crowdfunding investment finance. The platform, VentureCrowd, was developed by early stage venture capital firm Artesian Venture Partners ...

Blame it on the boogie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2014
It's the weather, stupid! This was how Wall Street interpreted last disappointing data on retail spending and weekly jobless claims. 'Twas a convenient excuse (rationale?), particularly last night when a skyful of snow dropped on the East Coast about ...

Of horse trades and the January effect

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2014
Boyoboyoboy, by the looks of it...we're really in trouble now, real trouble. Nah, not talkin' bout the Fed taking another US$10 billion away, neither that dreadful indication that China is continuing to slow nor renewed deflation fears in the eurozone ...

Retail funds close member satisfaction gap

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2014
Industry super fund members are more satisfied with the financial performance of their funds than members of retail funds, but the gap is closing, according to a new survey released by Roy Morgan. The survey put industry funds in the top five places ...

PE firms struggling with data management

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2014
Six out of 10 private equity firms are struggling with document management and disseminating data into market intelligence, according to global research conducted jointly by TABB Group and SunGard. The team behind the research surveyed 119 senior private ...

What's luck got to do with it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2013

High frequency trading improves market fairness

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2013
High frequency traders (HFTs) improve market fairness by reducing end-of-day price dislocation, new research from the Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre (CMCRC) has found. CMCRC examined data from 22 exchanges from around the world, from 2003-2011 ...

Cbus launches default retirement income stream option

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2013
Cbus has launched a new default investment option aimed at providing an income stream for people transitioning into or already in retirement. The 'Conservative Growth' option aims to provide an after tax return of inflation plus 3.25% over a rolling ...