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Dark pools effective at reducing volatility spikes: Liquidnet

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2016
Liquidnet research has shown that volatility of securities is reduced by over 103% in the minute before a block trade when using the firm's anonymous dark pool. The Liquidnet Block Study examined roughly 32,000 block trades - that is, trades executed ...

AustralianSuper and IFM seek energy asset

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2016
About 30 superannuation funds are in line to own a majority share in Ausgrid, one of New South Wales' largest electricity networks. Ahead of the NSW government re-launching its Ausgrid acquisition process, both IFM Investors and AustralianSuper submitted ...

Asset owners, managers not prepped for blockchain

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2016
A survey by State Street has found that while 65% of APAC asset owners and managers expect blockchain technology to be widely adopted in the next five years, only 33% of participants actually have blockchain initiatives underway at present to support ...

NAB pursues innovation via global banking alliance

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2016
NAB has partnered with two global financial institutions to form an international banking innovation alliance. Teaming up with Israel's Bank Leumi and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC), the alliance will facilitate the sharing of information ...

State Street partners with blockchain startup

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2016
State Street has teamed up with a blockchain provider in order to offer more transparent, timely and auditable means of reporting. The investment manager has engaged Silicon Valley-based PeerNova to develop a program via its Cuneiform platform aimed ...

Women behind in financial wellness survey

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2016
Women are "overrepresented" in low financial wellness indices, according to Workplace Super Specialists Australia research. The WSSA Financial Wellness index was developed in partnership with CoreData, and essentially defines the extent to which a given ...

Link directors resign

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2016
... directors while the private equity firm held more than 20% in Link Group. PEP acquired Link in August 2005, and this latest block trade has opened the door for superannuation funds to further investment in the large administrator. In a statement to the ...

Shaw and Partners restructures management

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2016
... grown adviser ranks and implemented stronger processes for the benefit of all of our clients. "This is another building block in rolling out a premium offering for our corporate, retail and institutional clients and I am confident that we will see results ...

Henderson launches emerging markets fund in Australia

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2016
... stable, long-term growth in what he described as an increasingly important asset class. "It's becoming a crucial building block in global equity portfolios."

ASX blockchain move defensive: Professor

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2016
A New York University professor believes at the very least the ASX should use blockchain to improve its back office processing of trades because that alone would provide a big profit opportunity. NYU Stern School of Business professor David Yermack ...