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HSBC joins mFund service

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2016
HSBC's online share trading platform has joined the Australian Securities Exchange's (ASX) mFund settlement service. The ASX said today's announcement brings the number of mFund distribution partners to 18, and there are now 22 mFund issuers or responsible ...

Australian non-bank finance shows robust growth

WHITNEY FITZSIMMONS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2016
... Pollari added. The report showed Australia is leading Asia in areas such as balance sheet business lending and invoice trading, where alternative finance platforms have been able to attract institutional participation and funding. In 2015 balance sheet ...

We've got the power and firepower (still)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2016
... that low interest rates and a more competitive Australian dollar are clearly having the desired effect." But the A$ was trading at around the US$0.72 level last month, it's currently fetching close to US$0.76 with momentum still on the upside.

RBNZ cuts rates, biased towards further easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2016
... RBNZ, "The trade-weighted exchange rate is more than 4 percent higher than projected in December". The NZ$ is currently trading at US$0.6627. Like many other central banks (the BOJ and the ECB, in particular), the RBNZ wants a lower currency in order ...

ANZ ready to fight ASIC over BBSW

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2016
... with ASIC's characterisation of the issues related to the chat messages. It is now for the courts to provide clarity on trading practices," Williams said.

ING DIRECT adds to Living Super investment menu

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2016
... a result of increased demand by clients and their advisers, citing CoreData research which said the appetite for share trading through superannuation is growing year on year, with more than 70% of retail superannuation investors saying they are interested ...

Sunsuper brings Vanguard CIO out of retirement

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2016
... retirement. He joined the now-US$3 trillion asset manager in 1987 as head of the equity investment group, developed its trading systems and later oversaw Vanguard introducing its exchange-traded funds. Sunsuper has further bolstered its investment team ...

More negatives

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2016
... never know what will. The Nikkei-225 index soared by 7.2% at the end of yesterday's trade. It even gapped at the open, trading 2% higher from last Friday's closing level. The weekend rally in US and European equities at the end of last week's trading ...

BetaShares goes global with third managed risk product

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2016
... has expanded its managed risk product series with the launch of the BetaShares Managed Risk Global Share Fund, which is trading under the ASX code "WRLD". The fund is designed to provide exposure to a broadly diversified portfolio of global shares with ...

Parametric exploring super smart beta

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2016
... there's potential tax consequences. Some things that look really good from a return risk perspective, like high frequency trading for example - which looks like very low risk and very high returns but if you look at it through the lens of after tax ...