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Family office backs fixed income fintech

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2020
... execution, analytics, valuation and data offering," Burges said. Liquidity Cube currently has about 25 clients (including six fund managers) and seven staff, with plans to add two back-end developers, two web-front-end staff and a junior product role. ...

ASIC mainly concerned with media releases: Lawyer

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2020
... by their industry bodies, successfully watered down FOFA to the rubble we were forced to live with, and which is now, some six to seven years later, being cleaned up. But not before they extracted one last golden egg out of the goose," Yazbeck said. ...

Chief economist update: The ECB's PEPP economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020
... Emergency Purchase Program (PEPP) by €600 billion to a total of €1,350 billion, extended the duration of the program by six months to June 2021 - or "until it judges that the coronavirus crisis phase is over" - and maturing principal repayments on ...

MLC Life names new chief executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2020
... a new chief executive and managing director, effective June 15. Rodney Cook has been appointed to lead MLC Life, close to six months after David Hackett departed the insurer. He will replace Sean McCormack who has been acting in the role since Hackett's ...

Charities call for further stimulus

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2020
... be making an operating loss, while 17% would be at a high risk of becoming unviable - needing to close their doors within six months. Already facing funding issues prior to the COVID-19 crisis, SVA chief executive Suzie Riddell warned charities would ...

Fed buys up BlackRock ETFs

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2020
... around half of the central bank's purchases. The Fed bought US$1.58 billion in investment grade and high-yield ETFs in May; six were high-yield ETFs and 11 were investment grade. The largest purchases by the Fed, were iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade ...

Global manager rolls out local access to alternatives fund

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2020
... "portfolio protection strategy" to generate uncorrelated positive returns during periods of market stress. The fund follows six strategies, including aiming to capitalise on the misplacing of convertible bonds, looking to exploit pricing inefficiencies ...

Newgate fund starts new life

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2020
... out here for some time. We have started engaging with asset consultants and expect its growth to accelerate over the next six months," Sanlam Private Wealth Australia head of product and strategy Maadhvi Patel told Financial Standard. Sanlam is currently ...

MLC Wealth appoints chair

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2020
... Coombe was group executive of Westpac Retail and Business Banking. Before that he was chief executive of BT Financial Group for six years where he was responsible for all of Westpac's funds management, financial planning, insurance, private banking ...

Gold holding onto Fibonacci resistance: Daily FX

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2020
... top, and the one before that - just before the financial crisis when gold prices shed approximately 34% over the course of six months," he said. "The only other example of RSI north of 75 was in 2006; and no major sell-off followed as gold prices ranged ...