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Chief economist update: Famous last words

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2018
The S&P 500 index closed at 2896.74 points at the end of last night's trading activity on Wall Street. Yes, Virginia, it's a new record high! Yippee-kay-yay and hallelujah! This is good for stock markets around the world, including Australia. ...

Global asset manager launches smart beta indices

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2018
... equity indices aim to outperform the market-cap weighted index by 2-4% over the medium to long-term, gross of fee and trading costs. Aberdeen Standard Investments global head of quantitative investments Sean Phayre said: "The new equity indices are purely ...

Australia's weekus horribilis

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2018
... 0.5%. Similarly, the yield on Australian 10-year bonds declined to 2.52% (from 2.55% at the end of the previous week's trading) before closing at 2.54% on Morrison's win. Whether this change in leader (again) brings about the significantly needed forward ...

IRESS first half revenues up 8pct, wealth and lending lead

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2018
... segment's buy-side revenue remained resilient, through demands for its portfolio solution. "The deployment of our online trading solution in Singapore is providing further opportunities in Asia. IRESS' IP and capability in trading and market data continues ...

YBR rejects 'opportunistic' takeover bid

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2018
... of $0.063 per share. YBR listed on 1 January 2008 and traded at 10 cents at publication time. Mercantile Investment was trading at 17 cents.

New $500m boutique manager partnership

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2018
... and Toby Masters. Masters was a Credit Suisse director of equity derivatives. He has extensive experience in proprietary trading and short-term momentum investing. Most recently, he was a partner at hedge fund Pittwater Capital. Stewart was a Challenger ...

Mainstream enters SMA market

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2018
... offering enhanced cash, online functionality, transacting and onboarding - including in specie transfers - and electronic trading in international equities and cash via an independent, lower fee digital platform," Smith said. Over the next two to three ...

Chief economist update: Emerging markets feel the heat as Turkey burns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2018
... (August 7) and July 10 to defend the peso which has tumbled to a record low peso 29.94/US$1. The Indian rupee is also trading at record lows (rupee 69.93) versus the US dollar and the South African rand - currently exchanging at 14.37 to US$1 - has dropped ...

GAM to liquidate bond funds

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2018
... risk management and record keeping failures, prompting an overwhelming number of redemptions. In response, GAM halted trading on all the funds overseen by Haywood and invested in the underlying GAM Absolute Return Bond Master Fund. The global manager ...

Chief economist update: Turkey's roasted

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2018
... down, down the Turkish lira went. It dropped to an all-time low of lira 6.3714 per US dollar at the end of last week's trading (10 August) - a 20.3% dive from the previous week's closing of lira 5.0766 and 40.9% down from the start of this year ...