Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 1981 - 1990 of 6099 results for "trading"

PM Capital wins Zenith award

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2015
... investor, or contrarian investor as it is often called, we make investments in quality businesses at a point when they are trading at a significant discount to their long term valuation and hold them until the market realises their inherent value, which ...

Reversal of fortunes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2015
We're happy, Jan! This is the universal chorus from financial markets everywhere the week - the first 7 trading days of October - after the quarter - the worst three-months since September 2011 - before. Oh yes, yes, yo Virginia, we're happy little ...

Tech boom drives super to VC

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2015
... creation of new equity, new value, new business models, new frontiers, new technology and new medicines, and not simply the trading of secondary equity on public markets, which does not in itself create any inherent value." H2 Ventures chairman Ben Heap ...

Janet vindicated

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2015
... first US interest rate hike in nine years -- underscored by the S&P 500 index dropping in seven of the following eight trading days and culminating in the worst quarter for equity markets since the September quarter of 2011. The S&P 500 lost 6.9% in ...

Chi-X adds advice, stockbroking market participants

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2015
A stockbroker and two independent financial planning licensees have joined the Chi-X Australia trading platform. Stockbroker OpenMarkets and advice firms Morgans and Shaw and Partners are now part of the Chi-X platform, which has 34 other market participants. ...

NZ Super weighs equity market capacity

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2015
... that managers commonly use this method. "While easy to understand and implement, that measure does not discriminate among trading strategies with different turnover requirements (e.g. non-market cap versus market-cap) or different styles (e.g. large-cap ...

OPINION: Why ditching the monarchy makes sense in the Asian century

ANDREW BRAGG, DIRECTOR OF POLICY AT THE FINANCIAL SERVICES COUNCIL  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
... Asia are already strong. In 2014, our government negotiated long awaited free trade agreements with three of our four top trading partners - China, Japan and South Korea. In this context we cannot argue that the vestiges of colonialism have held Australia ...

Saxo opens up access to trading platform

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015
Saxo Bank is giving its clients and partners open access to its trading infrastructure so they can develop it, customise it and integrate it into their own applications and systems. The move covers Saxo's multi-asset trading and back office infrastructure ...

AMP restructures China Fund to reduce discount

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2015
... introduced key changes based on a review by Goldman Sachs. The changes include implementing a Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect trading platform to increase the fund's liquidity. It will also alter the current default dividend reinvestment plan (DRP) ...

State Street appoints APAC markets head

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2015
State Street has appointed a new head of global markets sales and trading and research for the Asia-Pacific region. Colin Zhong joined State Street from UBS, where he specialised in "currency and fixed income rates products in locations including Hong ...