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ASIC unveils RG97 review

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2018
... and interposed vehicles in each of the previous five years. Disclosure of interposed vehicle definitions; how OTC derivatives are treated; and tax implications are items that need to be taken into account, the stakeholders said. One of the main recommendations ...

Former UBS Wealth boss joins LIC board

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018
... was UBS Wealth Management's UK head from 1999 to 2004. From 1992 to 1998, she headed UBS Investment Bank's European derivatives business. From 2005 to 2009, she was UBS Wealth Management Australia's chief executive officer. She retired from executive ...

Quantifeed eyes Australian expansion with $13.5m raising

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2018
... Sydney which is led by a professional with experience in developing compliant trading platforms for cash, equities and derivatives. Brant also said the Royal Commission would attract new participants to providers who lay out clear parameters of their ...

Global $221bn manager hires BlackRock exec for new Australian office

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2018
... earlier. Prior to this, he worked in investor solutions at Barclays Capital and was also head of adviser sales - equity derivatives at Macquarie Bank. Djounov said: "The strengthening of our distribution team in Australia underlines our commitment to ...

Former Macquarie equities team launches boutique

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2018
... environments. The market neutral fund will take long and short positions in local and international markets, and may use derivatives to manage exposures. It will charge 1.5% pa in management fees. Performance fee is 20% of the fund's excess return ...

BBSW methodology restores trust

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2018
... conducted a successful parallel run of the new methodology against the existing method. ASX executive general manager derivatives and OTC markets Helen Lofthouse said: "Users of the benchmark now have an even more robust and reliable benchmark, calculated ...

Saxo Capital Markets hires Aussie markets strategist

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2018
... chief executive of Saxo Capital Markets Australia, Ben Smoker. Creagh previously held senior roles at securities and derivatives broker JB Markets, and earlier worked as a relationship manager for wealth management advisory firm KnowledgebankIQ. Australian ...

SSGA boosts SPDR distribution team

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
... leveraged or inverse ETFs anywhere around the globe, nor any ETFs that are predominantly comprised of futures contracts or derivatives. But we do have significant education available on all those points."

DigitalX launches crypto-heavy fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2018
... portfolio manager. Its inaugural fund, DigitalX Investments, will invest mainly in cryptocurrencies but allow ICOs, crypto derivatives, cash, and managed investment schemes. "We believe cryptocurrencies are under-researched by mainstream asset managers ...

Investor education key to healthy ETF market: SPDR

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2018
... leveraged or inverse ETFs anywhere around the globe, nor any ETFs that are predominantly comprised of futures contracts or derivatives. But we do have significant education available on all those points." S&P Dow Jones Indices chair David Blitzer added ...