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Asset manager awards admin mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2018
... SS&C Technologies marked Global Merces as its first Australian client since the acquisition of DST earlier this year. The Nasdaq-listed company will provide fund and tax accounting, pricing, unit registry and administration services via its HiPortfolio ...

Chief economist update: Fed flattens the yield curve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2018
... Reserve missive, one would think that Wall Street is against strong(er) growth. All major benchmark indices - DJIA, S&P 500, Nasdaq and Russell 2000 - closed lower after the Fed announced the widely-anticipated 25 basis point hike in the fed funds rate ...

NAB launches super virtual assistant

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018
... Steel, is that it can actually carry out tasks for customers, rather than providing instructions on how they can be done. NASDAQ-listed Progress is helping develop industry-specific and self-learning chatbots for organisations in Australia and New Zealand ...

Chief economist update: The art of the deal exemplified

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2018
... actions...and the trade war is on! But instead of diving US equities rose - the S&P 500 gained 0.5%; the Dow 0.4%; the Nasdaq 0.4%. Buy on news? Perhaps. It could be markets are hoping that Trump's other threat of more tariffs to come - i.e. "reciprocal ...

Chief economist update: Bad news is good news returns?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2018
... inflation - in early February proved even worse than they expected. The Dow jumped by 1.0%, the S&P 500 index by 1.3% and the Nasdaq Composite by 1.9% the day the music should have died when the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) confirmed that inflation ...

SuperConcepts enhances document management system

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2018
... SMSF software and services provider said it consolidated a number of its applications to one platform with the help of NASDAQ-listed business application developer Progress. Groeneveld at the time said the partnership has enabled SuperConcepts to meet ...

Chief economist update: Wall Street wails on inflation indications

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2018
... perfectly rational rationales behind the previous week's big one-day fall on Wall Street - DJIA down 2.5%; S&P 500 down 2.0%; Nasdaq down 2%; Russell 2000 down 2.1%. But if the current ructions on Wall Street continues, you can bet your bottom dollar ...

Lazard chief executive steps down

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2018
... numerous roles in financial services for about 30 years, having entered the industry as a market surveillance analyst at NASDAQ in 1987. He was also director, head of international equities at State Super Financial Services (now StatePlus) and head of ...

Chief economist update: The spook on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2018
... had tumbled, sold off and crushed overnight. The final tally showed the S&P 500 index down 1.1%; the Dow down 1.5%, the Nasdaq 0.9% and the Russell 2000 1%. The butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker all blamed the bond market as the yield on 10-year ...

Chief economist update: The angel in the details

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2018
... 2.9% print. Certainly, this should put some doubt on Wall Street at the very least. Instead, the Dow, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq went on their merry record breaking ways. For sure it should, if Wall Street was investing for the December 2017 quarter ...