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More negatives

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2016
The Japanese economy shrinks, the Japanese sharemarket sings hallelujah! If this still doesn't capture the "bad news is good news" meme, we might never, never know what will. The Nikkei-225 index soared by 7.2% at the end of yesterday's trade. It even ...

App lets Australians invest pocket change

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2016
A new app released in Australia will allow users to round up daily purchases and invest the "change" into a diversified exchange-traded fund portfolio. Acorns, created by father-son business Acorns Grow in 2012, was released in the US in 2014 and has ...

GBST extends $8bn IFA partnership

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2016
GBST has extended its managed services agreement with an $8 billion independent financial advice firm. As a result, Baillieu Holst will continue using GBST's Shares equities settlement platform and Front Office service for its over 50,000 advice and ...

Those who want a job can get a job

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2016
Fed action is data-dependent. These words have been etched into Fed policy statements for as long as I could remember. The data most relevant to the US central bank, of course, are those that directly reveal progress on its dual "statutory mandate" ...

Standard Life Investments appoints ESG head

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2016
Standard Life Investments has promoted one of its senior fund managers to head of stewardship and ESG investment with Guy Jubb retiring at the end of March. Euan Stirling joined Standard Life Investments' as a UK equity analyst in 2001 from Schroder ...

GBST already set for T+2

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2016
GBST has become the first provider of securities transaction software to confirm readiness for the impending T+2 settlement regime for the Australian equities market. The ASX is targeting 7 March 2016 as its date to complete the transition from T+3 ...

Hastings names new UTA portfolio managers

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2016
Westpac subsidiary Hastings Funds Management has appointed two new portfolio managers to the group's largest fund, Utilities Trust of Australia (UTA). Joining Hastings from Flagstaff Partners is Brett Mitsch, who will now be the lead portfolio manager ...

BOJ goes negative to get postive

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2016
A week and a day after equity markets welcomed Super Mario Draghi's announcement that the European Central Bank (ECB) would "review and possibly reconsider our monetary policy stance at our next meeting in early March in order to secure a return of ...

Financial Standard appoints deputy editor

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2016
Financial Standard appoints Whitney Fitzsimmons, former host of ABC's Business Today and Lateline Business, as deputy editor. Fitzsimmons is one of the nation's most recognisable TV personalities, having spent over a decade at the ABC where for eight ...

Doom(ed) rebound?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2016
When the going gets tough...... the tough promises to get going. For a change, a number of equity markets around the globe finished flashing green numbers last week. The All Ordinaries index, for one, closed 0.4% in the plus - pitiful you might say ...