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Liquidnet appoints sales manager for Australia

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2013
... relationship manager in Australia to manage the growing demand for the company's pool of liquidity to source and execute block trades As Liquidnet sales and relationship manager, Tristan Baldwin will report to head of Liquidnet Australia James Chatfield. ...

Praemium returns to growth

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2013
Platform provider and portfolio administrator Praemium has posted net profits of $4.4 million, after recording a loss of $3.9 million last year. Overall the company's revenue grew by 8%, or approximately $1 million, reaching $14 million. Chief executive ...

AFS advisers question payment model

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2013
Former AFS Group advisers are questioning the method through which advisers get paid after a Court ruling has made it unlikely that they will receive the money they are owed by the dealer group. In the financial advice space, dealer groups usually set ...

ASIC brandishes whip on dark liquidity and HFT

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2013
... frequency trading," Armour said. "For example, there has been a significant decline in the volume of dark liquidity (below block size) as a result of the meaningful price improvement rule introduced in May this year, and we have observed a considerable ...

NAB confirms redundancies in wealth division

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2013
National Australia Bank (NAB) has confirmed redundancies in a number of roles within its wealth management division following a strategy to digitalise the business. The bank refused to specify the number of redundancies made effective to date and gave ...

New dark pool transparency rules introduced

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2013
... from those rules. For example the meaningful price improvement rule approved last year has resulted in a 40% drop in below block size trading in dark pools in its first month of operation," Bradbury said. "In addition to these new rules, the Government ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2013
... afternoon trade on Friday, following an 0.8 per cent rise on Wall Street. "America being America, the biggest kid on the block, we followed suit," RBS Morgans private client adviser Bill Bishop said. "We're climbing slowly, and we've had rallies right ...

Scam artists impersonate ASIC and MoneySmart

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2013
... receiving out-of-the-blue emails or phone calls requesting personal or banking information to hang up or delete the email and block the sender.

AdviserEdge Melbourne kicks off on 14 July

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2013
Financial services think tank The Social Adviser will be holding an encore version of its inaugural AdviserEdge Social Advice Summit in Melbourne from 14 July - 16 July. The event aims to provide advisers with practical solutions so that they can effectively ...

SSgA launches hedged international equities ETF

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
... where the currency is heading," she added. Skelly continued: "Australian investors now have another significant building block to help them construct a diversified portfolio, which holds global brands and other international market-leading companies ...