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Students to manage university fund

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2017
... third-year commerce and postgraduate finance students will use the university's trading rooms which are equipped with 24 Bloomberg terminals. Griffith University associate professor Robert Bianchi said the university has a strong commitment to the environment ...

Financial services firms eye machine learning

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2017
... growing number of Australian firms are adopting it to make sense of big data and to improve productivity. According to Bloomberg, more than half (55%) of Australian financial services companies are investing in adopting or applying machine learning to ...

Enter the dragon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2017
... big economy not long ago. In 2011 it became the second biggest economy in the world, displacing Japan. All this from Bloomberg's 28 November 2014 report "China Overtakes Japan as World's Second-Biggest Stock Market". For sure there are and there would ...

Trump-flation returns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2017
... inflation. Despite this, question remains as to Congress' approval given its expected negative impact on the budget deficit. Bloomberg reports that: "21 of 26 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News after Trump and Republican congressional leaders rolled ...

On the road to normal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 SEP 2017
... ended 8 September. Yields on the tenners went up by more - 16 bps to 2.22% over the same period. Though still small, the Bloomberg US dollar index has recovered some ground from last week's low reading of 91.35 to 92 overnight. The US dollar index's ...

Wall Street interrupted

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 SEP 2017
... Jones Industrial Average gained 1.2% overnight (from -0.9% last week) and regained its hold above the 22,000-point mark; Bloomberg's US dollar spot index increased by 0.6% (down 1.6% last week) and after shedding 10 basis points last week to 2.06%, the ...

Treasurer backs APRA's CBA probe

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 31 AUG 2017
... could be available in six months' time with appropriate action being taken, Treasurer Scott Morrison told this morning's Bloomberg Address. Morrison said he supported and is pleased with APRA's decision to conduct an independent inquiry into CBA's governance ...

Global reinsurer adopts ESG framework

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 24 JUL 2017
... governance criteria into its investment decisions through the use of the equity MSCI ESG Index and the fixed income Bloomberg Barclays MSCI Corporate Sustainability Index. The company said it is convinced that accounting for ESG considerations makes ...

The problem with currency extrapolation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUL 2017
... US$0.7832 on 14 July and is currently trading at US$0.78. It's exactly two months and a couple of days (16 May) since Bloomberg published Michael Wilson's piece "The Australian Dollar's Outlook Darkens". Wilson talked about leveraged long A$ positions ...

HESTA stands up to all-male boards

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUL 2017
... analysis of diversity disclosure at listed companies found few in the S&P/ASX 200 disclosed numerical diversity targets. Bloomberg data as at April 2017 indicates that just 10 companies in the S&P/ASX 200 have a female chief executive and, on average ...