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Liquidnet increases average trade size in Australia

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2015
... for the first quarter of the year, up from $1.7 million at the end of 2014. The company reported that this figure is 390 times greater than the $4,680 average trade size in ASX Centre Point (the ASX's dark pool) over the same period. The average liquidity ...

Now for Australia's debt surge

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2015
... to 22.4 per cent of GDP in 2020 from 17 per cent at the end of 2014..." "Australia's increase will also be more than 10 times the 3 per cent rise expected in the United States... Germany's debt-to-GDP will fall 25 per cent to 37.1 per cent." It couldn't ...

Fund manager insists active approach not broken

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015
... underperformed their benchmark in all the major sectors, barring domestic small caps. However, Epoch argues that in recent times markets have simply not behaved how they should, which has understandably caught professional investors out. "Normally, you ...

Strike three

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
It's a hat trick. It's three for three. Three times that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) wrong-footed market expectations. Governor Glenn Stevens cut interest rates by 25 basis points to a record low 2.25% back in February when markets expected ...

Q1 earnings expectations get rub down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2015
... current levels, the S&P 500 index is overvalued no matter how you cut it - the forward P/E ratio which is currently at 16.7 times earnings is above its 5-year average of 13.7 times and 10-year average of 14.1 and 15-year average of 15.8; the trailing ...

All roads leading to China's "one road"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2015
... United States and Japan have remained skeptical about the negotiation." The last sentence is now superseded by Financial Times' latest report that, "Japan is likely to join the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank within a few months... and leave the ...

Former Wallaby Kearns resurfaces at insurance broker

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2015
... Investec. Prior to his business career, he played 67 tests for the Wallabies between 1989 and 1999, captaining his country 10 times. Kearns is also widely regarded for his philanthropic activities, creating The Balmoral Burn back in 2000 in support of ...

The real problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015
... steady decline since peaking at around 2.20 reals per US dollar despite the BCB raising its benchmark target SELIC rate five times since April. The central bank has steadily lifted interest rates since the SELIC rate bottomed at 7.25% in March 2013. ...

Advisers need to provide multi-pronged services

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
... of comprehensive advice delivered face to face," said Investment Trends analyst King Loong Choi. "Instead, there are five times as many Australians who prefer to receive limited advice if it's delivered at a lower cost." At the same time, the industry ...

New HNWIs demand unbundled services

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2015
... information at people's fingertips so we all feel like experts overnight, but you often see trends in advice go up when times are hardest because that's what happens when risk comes into play," he said. If advisers can adjust their service offering to ...