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Drown baby, drown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2016
... anticipating rising inflation which, in turn, leads to monetary policy tightening to quell inflationary pressures - and acting/trading, accordingly. These days, cheaper oil has become bad. Certainly, it's not giving the boost to consumption posited in ...

China's January effect

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2016
... have panned out at the start of 2016. Equity markets around the globe dropped -- big time -- at the start of the first trading week of this year. The S&P 500 index ended 6.0% lower; the Stoxx 600 index dropped by 6.7%; the Nikkei-225 index retreated ...

Magellan prepping ASX-quoted version of infra fund

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
... structure to the global listed infrastructure strategy will up it up to a wave of SMSF investors who want the convenience of trading via the exchange and to whom the asset class is particularly well suited. "We think infrastructure should deliver a real ...

ASIC bans former Macquarie adviser for market manipulation

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
... Davidof and the former employee arranged to trade MINIs were designed to transfer the profit/loss from all the preceding trading, without reflecting the SPI Futures that were actually traded. "This was likely to have the effect of creating an artificial ...

Local shares lacklustre in 2016

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2015
... always kept pace with what is on market. "This is unlike the case with listed property trusts, the majority of which are trading to a premium - in some cases quite a significant premium of up to 20%. "As well, listed property tends to rally along with ...

Class to list on ASX before Christmas

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2015
Self-managed superannuation administrative software provider Class is expected to commence trading on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) from 16 December 2015. Class closed its IPO offer on 4 December with about $25 million allocated to new investors ...

CBA to close institutional equities business

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2015
... forming an alliance with the Commonwealth Bank, with exclusive access to CommSec, Australia's largest online retail share trading platform, which will greatly enhance our combined abilities to execute a range of equity financing solutions for all of ...

SMSFs ramp up trading in turbulent markets

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2015
... super fund (SMSF) investors are making the most of recent volatility and buying cheap when the market is low, CommSec trading data shows. CommSec SMSFs trading patterns for the week ending 28 August 2015, which included the biggest single day drop since ...

Northern Trust acquires brokerage firm

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2015
Northern Trust has acquired a global institutional equity brokerage firm that also offers market research, trading and execution services. The acquisition of Aviate Global will allow Northern Trust to expand its brokerage capabilities in the Europe ...

Hedge funds under cost pressure from brokers

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2015
Hedge funds are facing higher trading costs and changes to business relationships that are hurting margins in the wake of new regulations on banks and prime brokers, a new global survey of the industry by EY reveals. Regulations such as Basel III and ...