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Board changes at Sandon Capital

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAY 2017
... shareholder strategies' in selecting small to mid-cap Australian companies to its portfolio by engaging with companies trading below intrinsic values. This usually involves proposing changes to companies' corporate governance, operations, and management ...

Another Budget, another promised surplus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAY 2017
... the budget measures themselves. Throw in assumptions for global growth, the progress (or otherwise) of Australia's major trading partners, geopolitical uncertainties (trade war mongering by Trump), commodity prices, exchange rates...and we have a minefield ...

Strong quarter for CBA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia reported a strong quarterly performance, according to a trading update released to the ASX. Assets under management rose by 6%, while funds under administration increased by 7% in the three months to March compared ...

From financial advisers to cybersecurity advocates

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2017
... tech companies. Lee recommends financial advisers ask fund managers, the companies that they're investing in and their trading partners some basic questions on the cybersecurity system they have in place. The challenge is that a security breach, minor ...

Financial advisers should consider bitcoin as an asset class: Dunworth

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2017
... currencies in recent years, according to an industry expert. This week the cryptocurrency broke record-highs when it started trading above USD$1680 against the US dollar. As at May this year, the total market cap of the bitcoin market has more than doubled ...

Expanding expansion in manufacturing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAY 2017
... from 1.5% in the previous one (inside the RBA's 2%-3% target band) may have lifted the odds for a rate hike. But futures trading put this at a still slim 12% from a small 4% before the CPI report - and this is not until 12 months from now. That may be ...

VanEck to launch smart beta bond ETF

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2017
... will launch a smart beta Australian fixed income exchange-traded fund on the ASX - the first of its kind in Australia. Trading under the ticker code PLUS, the VanEck Vectors Australian Corporate Bond Plus ETF tracks the Markit iBoxx AUD Corporates Yield ...

Investment manager appoints head of machine learning

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2017
... AHL's machine learning team has been actively researching machine learning techniques and applying them within its client trading programs for several years. The Man Group benefits from its innovative collaboration with the University of Oxford, the ...

O Canada

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2017
... Canadian dollar dropped to a 14-month low against the US dollar before settling at US$73.67 at the close of last night's trading - down 0.5% from the previous day and 1.0% this year to date. However, Canada's stock market gained on the day, reflecting ...

Decidedly undecided

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 APR 2017
... Monsieur Macron is a "zealous pro-European who wants to reinforce ties with Germany, to keep France part of the global trading system, to build cross-party support between left and right in order to "unblock" the French economy, and to support the transatlantic ...