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ASX runs into trouble again

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2020
After Monday's outage, the ASX was in trouble again yesterday as its Centre Point matching system closed off participants from using Chi-X bids and offers. The Centre Point is an anonymous matching system that matches buyers and sellers at the mid-point ...

NSW budget boosts TCorp loans

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2020
TCorp has unveiled its new funding program that will increase client loans in line with the New South Wales government's record spend on infrastructure. In FY21, TCorp's funding program consists of $32 billion of new client loans. Maturities for the ...

InvestSMART adds to board

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2020
ASX-listed InvestSMART Group has added a well-known financial commentator and editor to its board, which is chaired by Paul Clitheroe. Effie Zahos will join InvestSMART's board. She is currently editor-at-large at Canstar. Until last year she was ...

New fixed income boutique launches

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2020
Former UBS fund manager Chris Baylis, billionaire investor Alex Waislitz and ASX-listed cash platform Cashwerkz have teamed up to launch a new funds management businesses. Fortlake Asset Management is offering four funds, across retail, wholesale and ...

Former advisers face huge fines

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2020
A former Macquarie financial adviser could be facing $1 million in fines, while the other has been fined $30,000 in a busy week for ASIC. Former Macquarie adviser Warren Acworth has been charged with dishonesty offences in Brisbane. He's facing ...

Perpetual equities fund cops ratings downgrade

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2020
The wholesale vehicle of a $3.3 billion concentrated equities strategy managed by Perpetual's Paul Skamvougeras was downgraded to bronze at Morningstar. The Perpetual Wholesale Concentrated Growth Equity Fund invests in 20 to 45 Australian stocks, chosen ...

Chief economist update: Good or bad news is good Wall Street news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2020
It may have gone up and down and round and round but the US equity market has trended higher and higher and is outperforming its peers. Despite topping the list of total cases of coronavirus infections (8.6 million), new cases (0.6 million) and deaths ...

Pandemic batters life insurers

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has wiped out $1.4 billion from the books of life insurers and triggered a spike in claims, according to new research. KPMG's 2020 Life insurance insights reveals close to half of the firms it analysed are making a loss. ...

Death of value investing a myth: Realindex

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020
The rise of a small handful of growth stocks is creating a distortion and obscuring the true performance of value investing in global markets, according to Realindex. In a research paper titled Value is dead, long live value, Realindex quantitative ...

Integrity Life raises $43m

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2020
Institutional fund managers have pumped $43 million into life insurance startup Integrity Life to help it expand and build out its digital offering. The majority of the capital came from Schroders Investment Management based in Switzerland, Leadenhall ...