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High frequency trading improves market fairness

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2013
High frequency traders (HFTs) improve market fairness by reducing end-of-day price dislocation, new research from the Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre (CMCRC) has found. CMCRC examined data from 22 exchanges from around the world, from 2003-2011 ...

AMP's Ipac unveils Next Generation Advice program

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2013
Ipac has started to implement Next Generation Advice, a program designed to improve communication with clients and to deliver consistency across the group's practices all over the country. The AMP-owned dealer group has appointed Matthew Fogarty as ...

Fund managers rethink distribution approach after FoFA

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2013
A growing number of fund managers are making changes in their distribution strategy and bringing their retail and institutional distribution teams closer together to reflect industry consolidation brought on by the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) ...

CIO exit forces Bedlam closure

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2013
Bedlam Asset Management has been forced to close following the surprise departure of chief investment officer Ian McCallum. According to a note published on the London-based fund manager's website, McCallum left "without warning" to take up a role in ...

Cochrane picks up FSS board role

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2013
Former REST Superannuation chief executive Neil Cochrane is set to become chairman of the First State Super (FSS) Trustee Corporation (FTC) board, after the departure of Thomas Parry in 2014. Parry, who has provided 14 years of service to the FTC will ...

Facebook turns on profits as teenagers turn off

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2013
Amid strong profit results for Facebook, analysts are zeroing in on the falling usage from teenagers - pointing to long term implications for corporations that have a singular social media strategy. Facebook declared a 60% jump in September profits ...

Macquarie posts solid half-year result

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2013
Macquarie Group's profits have jumped 39% year-on-year for the half year to 30 September 2013. Net profit after tax attributable to ordinary shareholders was $501 million for the period, up 2% on the half year ended 31 March 2013. Macquarie Group managing ...

University academics to access advice research grants

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2013
University academics will be able to access financial planning research grants up to $5,000 under an agreement between the Financial Planning Education Council (FPEC) and the Financial Planning Association (FPA). The first round of the grants will be ...

Pension rule changes to benefit 740,000

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2013
More than 740,000 Australian pensioners will have extra money in their pockets as a result of the lowering of the social security deeming rates from 4 November 2013, Minister for Social Services Kevin Andrew said. The deeming rate will decrease to 2% ...

Taper trap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2013
"Don't fight the Fed!" I re-introduced this old saying on Wall Street at the end of last week to characterise the financial markets' behaviour du jour. The S&P 500 surely doesn't want to -- it closed at another fresh record high last week...and could ...