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Xero consolidates stock exchange listings

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2017
Global cloud accounting software provider Xero will delist from the New Zealand Stock Exchange and transfer all shares to the Australian Securities Exchange. Announcing the move via its half-year results, Xero said it would consolidate its listing on ...

Beyond 6000

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2017
After three attempts over the past 10 years, the S&P/ASX 200 index finally got there - it broke above the formidable 6000-point resistance level. The Australian equity market's benchmark index closed up by 1% yesterday - a hefty day index return by ...

Mason Stevens expands fixed income, appoints SMA manager

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 7 NOV 2017
Managed accounts provider Mason Stevens has appointed a fixed income specialist and an SMA manager as part of its growth plans. Roman Gerber joined two months ago as the Separately Managed Account Manager, overseeing all SMA portfolios and working as ...

Changed RBA rate expectations?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2017
Financial markets got what they wished for from the world's three biggest central banks that met last week. The Bank of Japan (BOJ), the Fed and the Bank of England (BOE) all delivered as expected but not without help from the repeated and reiterated ...

Melbourne boutique shutters under passive pressure

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2017
The rise of passive investment and superannuation fund internalisation has led to a Melbourne-based Australian equities boutique terminating its only fund. In a letter to unitholders, Concise Asset Management said it has reluctantly decided to wind ...

Fed does the expected, will do as expected

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2017
It was the event that wasn't. This event, of course, is the US Federal Reserve's 31 October - 1 November FOMC meeting. The Fed's forward guidance is the same as it was in the 20 September FOMC statement when it announced that it would initiate its balance ...

Surefire Melbourne Cup bet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2017
... underemployment rate eased to 8.6% in the August quarter from 8.8% in the three-month period ended May and the record high 8.9% in February (based on Factset available data). Good, but as the chart below shows, not good enough to induce an acceleration ...

Forgery sees former NAB adviser sentenced

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 27 OCT 2017
A former NAB adviser pleaded guilty to two charges of forgery brought against him by ASIC. Shane Thompson of New Gisborne, Victoria was fined $1000 and forced to pay $223.30 in costs by the Melbourne Magistrates' Court for forging and submitting financial ...

ECB schedules taper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 OCT 2017
The European Central Bank's (ECB) October monetary policy meeting ended financial market speculations over its QE exit strategy. ECB president Mario Draghi did what he telegraphed he would -- discuss QE unwind strategy in October - and offered something ...

Macquarie Atlas Roads farewells chief executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2017
The chief executive of Macquarie Atlas Roads (MQA) will step down after eight years in the role. Peter Trent is exiting the role in February 2018 to be succeeded by current Macquarie Infrastructure Corporation (MIC) chief executive James Hooke. Following ...