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Australia's first OTC trading desk for digital currencies opens

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2018
... investors wanting to execute large digital currency trades will have an over-the-counter trading desk to go to from next week. Sydney-based Bitcoin and digital currency exchange Independent Reserve will go live with Australia's first OTC digital currency ...

Acadian appoints investments head from SSGA

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2018
... Acadian Asset Management has appointed a new head of investments for Australia. Jean-Christophe de Beaulieu joins Acadian's Sydney office from State Street Global Advisors in Boston, where he was managing director and senior portfolio manager for the ...

Acadian talks big data 2.0, launches A-shares strategy

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2018
... around ESG and sustainable investing. This is the thoughts of Acadian Asset Management portfolio manager Asha Mehta. In Sydney recently to speak with institutional investors, Mehta said governance and carbon risk were two examples where quant managers ...

Women-led super funds outperform again

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2018
... results of a recently released study into the stock market trading performance of Finnish investors by University of NSW and Sydney University academics that found women traders consistently outperformed male counterparts. Last year a study by Scandinavian ...

Chief economist update: Next move in rates will likely be up, but it's not certain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2018
... August 2016." This is what RBA Governor Philip Lowe told his audience at the Australian Financial Review Business Summit in Sydney yesterday. Not only did we notice it gov, we expected it! But perhaps not very many noticed that while it was not a cut ...

Staggering annuities can fund retirement shortfall

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
... Business School, said it can cost retirees 30% to 40% more money to fund retirement without an annuity. Babbel, who visited Sydney to host financial planning events, said staggering annuities - particularly in a low interest rate environment and rising ...

Insto mandate seeds Aviva fund launch

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
... would establish its third multi-strategy fund in Australia - the AIMS Fixed Income Fund. Speaking to Financial Standard in Sydney, Munro said the launch of an absolute return bond fund was timely given February's equity and bond market turbulence. The ...

Fundraise like a RockStar

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2018
... to repeat its success at the 12th 'Who Wants to be a RockStar' to be held on Thursday, 22 March, at The Ivy Ballroom in Sydney. More than 40 of the big names in the industry have lent their support, including platinum sponsors ANZ, Challenger, Colonial ...

Super funds embrace crowdsourced cybersecurity

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2018
... fully-diversified portfolio and align strongly with our long-term investment strategy." The startup was originally founded in Sydney in 2012 at the Startmate accelerator and counts the likes of Atlassian, Tesla, TripAdvisor and Fitbit among its customers. ...

Northern Trust appoints head of Australasia

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2018
... senior appointments to bolster its Australian presence last year. First, the company appointed Sally Surgeon to head up its Sydney operations, and then hired Simon McDonough as a senior equity program trader, reporting to Asia institutional brokerage ...