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Study finds dark pools damage market quality

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2013
Dark pools are damaging overall price discovery and market quality in the US, according to new research by Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre (CMCRC). Researchers from the Australian independent academic centre for capital market research looked ...

IFM look to Latin America in latest appointment

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2013
Industry Funds Management (IFM) has appointed Nicolas Villen as an external senior adviser to its US$7.1 billion Global Infrastructure Fund. Villen has worked extensively in Spain, including 20 years at Spanish multinational Ferrovial, S.A. His appointment ...

Aussie shares weaken ahead of long weekend

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2013
... chief executive Andrew Mackenzie's address to Melbourne Mining Club in London. Rival Rio Tinto lost 33 cents to $53.74. The big banks were mixed, with Commonwealth Bank shedding 27 cents to $65.88 and National Australia Bank losing eight cents to $28.67. ...

The coming 2013 crash according to Paul B. Farrell

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2013
... bonds' 3. Peter Schiff is 'doubling down' on his 'doomsday' prediction 4. Bill Gross: 'Credit supernova' turning 2013 bull into big bad bear 5. Gary Shilling predicts the 'grand disconnect' will trigger 'shocker' 6. 'Kaboom ahead,' an 'ominous third ...

Australian stocks weaker at close

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2013
... Westpac had fallen 48 cents to $28.71 and ANZ was down 34 cents at $26.86. National Australia Bank fell 20 cents to $28.75. The big miners were weaker, with Rio Tinto down 29 cents at $54.07 and BHP Billiton two cents lower at $33.77. Meanwhile, retailer ...

Free service may help advisers bypass FoFA costs

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2013
... was a convoluted way of providing advice on commission, even though Curve only offers term deposits from client banks. "The big banks probably don't like us, because we do make things harder for them." Curve forces banks to offer better rates. "It's ...

Buffett helps SMSF investors to big returns

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2013
... performance of legendary investor Warren Buffett has helped some Australian self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) investors post big returns over the last three years. The first of a number of JBG Structured Investments products linked to the performance ...

The death of QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2013
"The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself." - Publilius Syrus (Maxim 511) What parent would name his child Publilius? But Pub - the Assyrian who wrote mimes in Latin during the 1 BC - as he was fondly called could have been describing ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013
The Australian stock market has opened lower, led by falls among the major miners and big retail banks. The market took its cues from Wall Street, where US stocks slid about half a per cent and falls in key commodities such as oil and gold. Market players ...

It'll be on 18 September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013
"Every single day Every word you say... I'll be watching you." -Sting Wall Street down and...you guessed it, it's taper on day. And so, round and round we go, when it ends we do not know. But perhaps we do. There's now an emerging consensus that the ...