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Macquarie Securities cops ASIC penalty

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2019
... disciplinary panel determined it had reasonable grounds to believe Macquarie contravened the rules that deal with providing data to ASX and Chi-X. ASIC said Macquarie transmitted roughly 42 million orders to the two exchanges with incorrect or missing ...

IRESS acquires market data firm

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2019
... IRESS chief executive Andrew Walsh said the acquisition is strategically aligned to IRESS's business activities, including the ASX-listed company's increasing focus on data. "The acquisition will further strengthen IRESS' international market data business ...

Shock win leaves investors worse off

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2019
Investors who chose to rebalance their portfolios in anticipation of a Labor victory in the Federal election now find themselves at a critical junction: to revert to an Australian equity focus or accept a more balanced portfolio that rejects excess ...

Court throws out Aurora fund takeover bid

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2019
... activist investor Tim Staermose and Primary Securities arranged a meeting for the unitholders of the Aurora Absolute Return Fund (ASX: ABW) in Canberra to vote on resolutions to remove Aurora as the responsible entity of the fund with Primary Securities. ...

Life insurers post strong March quarter

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2019
... drivers for this difference were the favourable movements in financial markets in the most recent quarter (e.g. a 9.5% rise in ASX 200), which positively impacted life insurers' investment revenue, along with a discrete write-off of goodwill that negatively ...

New tax-effective Aussie shares fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2019
... starting a quantitative equities fund with Generation Life that aims to return 1-2% higher after-tax returns than the S&P ASX 200 benchmark would do, at a 65 bps fee. The portfolio will hold 50 to 60 companies, and derive its tax savings from taking ...

Liberal win stuns, ASX rallies: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2019
While the Liberal Party's win came as a surprise to the majority of our readership, stock market investors on the other hand were buoyant with the result, Financial Standard 's latest spot poll shows. About 63% of participants said the Morrison ...

Investment firm plans delisting

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2019
An investment firm focused on private equity style transactions has decided to delist from the ASX. Oceania Capital Partners (ASX: OCP) said it wants to delist through an off-market equal access share buyback, subject to shareholder approval at the ...

Financial tech firm refocuses strategy

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2019
An ASX-listed financial planning technology company will reconfigure its strategy following an unsuccessful pilot partnership with Commonwealth Financial Planning. Intiger will refocus its strategy on developing and marketing its BOOM software after ...

Former Vanguard broking and wealth expert joins Bell Direct

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2019
... rapidly changing market stockbroking, investment and financial advisory firm dynamics," Selvarajah said. Bell Direct is part of ASX-listed stockbroking, investment and financial advisory firm Bell Financial Group. Latest earnings results show revenue ...