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Down, down business conditions are down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2017
To say that you, I and Irene were surprised at last month's NAB business survey - that showed Australian business conditions rocketed to an all-time high in October but confidence hardly budged - is more than just an understatement for even the survey ...

Contango swaps investment managers following AGM

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2017
The majority of Contango Microcap (CTN) shareholders approved the proposal to remove Contango Asset Management (CGA) as the firm's investment manager at the annual general meeting today. The new investment manager for CTN will be NAOS Asset Management. ...

Aussie fintech usage surges

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2017
The rate Australia is adopting fintech services has almost tripled in the last 18 months, making it one of the top countries in the world with a sizable demand for new financial services technology. Australia's uptake rate (37%) sat above the global ...

Contango Asset Management chief departs

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 31 OCT 2017
The managing director and chief investment officer of Contango Asset Management (CGA) has stepped down from his position. George Boubouras played a key role in the management buyout of CGA from Contango MicroCap, which saw the former change hands to ...

Enter the dragon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2017
Good, bad or ugly, there were events a-plenty last week for speculators and investors to digest for guidance on what lies ahead. There's the lingering North Korean nuclear threat - although this has barely made it to headlines over the past week; there's ...

Platinum expands North American footprint

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2017
Platinum Asset Management appointed a new distributor to help expand its global equity capabilities to the US and Canadian institutional market. AccessAlpha Worldwide, an adviser and placement agent for institutional asset managers and investors, was ...

BGL integrates with Xero for single database

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 12 SEP 2017
Clients of BGL Corporate Solutions and Xero will see their compliance workloads reduced following the integration of Simple Fund 360 and CAS 360 with Xero Practice Manager. The two-way integration upgrade will ensure that changes made to a client's ...

Fintech future lies in a winning ecosystem: Reinventure

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2017
... moment most blockchain companies are going to Switzerland because you can set up as a non-profit there and do an ICO (initial coin offering), or they're going to Singapore. So I think we still have our work cut out for us to be a leader in this space," ...

Economics 101 is dead

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 JUL 2017
The first thing we learned in economics is how prices are determined by the interaction between demand and supply. High demand and low supply causes prices to rise - and vice-versa. Economists have already coined the term "stagflation" - an economic ...

XTB adds bond SMA to Macquarie Wrap

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUN 2017
XTB is expanding its pure fixed income separately managed account solution onto Macquarie Wrap. The ACBC Fixed Income No. 1 Model Portfolio was first available to financial advisers in February using Praemium SMA and SuperSMA platforms, and invests ...