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IRESS acquires market data firm

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2019
Financial technology company IRESS is acquiring an international provider of market data and trading infrastructure. IRESS will pay up to €38.9 million for QuantHouse which provides more than 145 data feeds from exchanges and other data providers ...

Chief economist update: US recession in the offing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2019
... points the following month and every month thereafter until reaching 25%. This sent US equities lower the next day and last trading day of May - Dow (1.41%), S&P 500 (1.32%), Nasdaq (1.51%), Russell 2000 (1.35%). Meanwhile, 10-year US bond yields closed ...

New tax-effective Aussie shares fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2019
... the price it bought a holding at and actively calculates the capital gains tax it may accrue at divestment in making its trading decisions. Senior portfolio manager Max Cappetta, who has a masters with an actuarial maths major and research director Anthony ...

Chief economist update: The greatest challenge of our time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2019
... Meanwhile, Euro bond yields are minus 0.17% - they dropped to 2.9% during the GFC - and yields on 10-year JGBs are currently trading at minus 0.09% (versus 1.2% during the GFC). Certainly, despite all the uncertainties and the challenges the world currently ...

Investment firm plans delisting

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2019
... delisting is considered by the company's board to be in the best interests of the company in the light of the low levels of trading liquidity of the company's shares on the ASX and other factors which have lead the board to conclude that the costs and ...

Kapstream looks to Chi-X for active ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2019
... income strategy as a Chi-X quoted fund on a date to be announced soon. Chi-X is gearing up to list ETFs instead of just trading them. It will start its quoted fund market with fixed income funds as the initial listings. The exchange is still awaiting ...

Major instos hit with cartel class action

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2019
... repeated over thousands of transactions they make a real difference to currency prices." He explained he relies on forex trading as his business needs to trade with international companies. "To have been subjected to an uneven playing field and paying ...

Boutique hires distribution lead from AMP Capital

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2019
... private bank, broker and family office distribution. He previously worked at Bell Potter Securities in intuitional sales and trading, and is a former financial adviser at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. Ophir manages two Australian equity funds: the ASX-listed ...

ASIC bans adviser over super theft

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2019
... the companies complied with their obligation to keep written financial records and failed to prevent the companies from trading while possible insolvent. ASIC relied on reports lodged by liquidators to make its decision to ban McSweeny. In December last ...

Zenith acquires New Zealand firm

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2019
... NZX is New Zealand's exchange and a markets business operating equity, debt, derivatives and energy markets providing trading, clearing, settlement, depository and data services. It owns Smartshares - New Zealand's only ETF issuer - and KwiSaver provider ...