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New private trades platform for family offices

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2020
... for family offices to transact in private markets securities. Sharenett, which is a network of over 400 family offices and ultra-high-net-worths around the world, said the launch is a part of its strategy to become the leading regulatory compliant distribution ...

BlackRock iShares launches two ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020
... ETF and iShares Core Corporate Bond ETF to our existing fixed income ETF suite, particularly in the current backdrop of ultra-low interest rates and reduced equity dividends," iShares head of Australasia Christian Obrist said. "Designed with investors' ...

Australia facing largest ever GDP fall

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
... next major rally," Green said. "In addition, those with savings in the bank are already getting no return thanks to the ultra-low interest rates. Negative rates will offer them more reason to increase their exposure to equities, for example."

Melbourne hedge fund quietly folds

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020
A Melbourne fund manager started by former founders of RBS Morgan's ultra-high-net-worth division and backed by a family office is currently in the process of winding up. Qato Capital had three funds, in market neutral, long/short fund, and active share ...

Asset manager hires new chief executive

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2020
... with a specific focus on family office. Michael Barnes has been appointed to the role, following a history of working as an ultra-high net worth and family office accountant. Australian Standfirst AM chief investment officer Stirling Larkin said Barnes ...

Trading platforms see record use

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... responsible for the explosion in active traders on the platform. "There is no doubt that the recent market volatility and the ultra-low interest rate environment has created significant interest in the stock market," Edgley said. The increase pushed ...

Opportunities and threats amid COVID-19 crisis

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... believe the world requires higher oil prices to incentivise replacement supply from higher-cost conventional sources, such as ultra-deep water." Potter said there were both opportunities and threats within the mining sector. " Base metal prices are suffering ...

No time to look back

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2020
... trade war and an aggressive Fed rate hike cycle," Spivak said. "If the slowdown punctures any bubbles built up through the ultra-accommodative post-GFC period, a credit crisis may ensue. That probably explains markets' rush for liquidity in spite ...

Panic selling to do more damage: Ord Minnett

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2020
... impossible, particularly against a backdrop of an already fragile global economy that had been balancing a confluence of factors: ultra-low interest rates due to waning economic growth and geopolitical tensions, record debt-levels and stretched valuations ...

Hermes handbags an emerging asset class for UHNWs

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020
... prepared to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on the rarest or most desirable bags," KFLII editor Andrew Shirley said. Ultra-high-net-worth investors allocate about 5% of their investment portfolios to collectables, higher than their allocations ...