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IRESS eyes future earning potential following reduced profit

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 18 AUG 2017
... 30 June 2017 was $175 million. Explaining the dip, the company cited the impact of non-recurring items, movements in currency, and amortization changes on recently acquired businesses, and movements in interest and tax charges. Over the last year, Financial ...

BNY Mellon subsidiary makes local and global hires

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2017
... solutions for our clients." Separately, Adam Kibble will join Insight's Sydney team as a product specialist covering currency, multi-asset and fixed income. Kibble spent more than 15 years with Macquarie Funds Management, focused on fixed income, currency ...

Hedging strategies protecting members' assets: NAB

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2017
... using hedging strategies or the help of an external overlay manager to implement trades to protect investments against currency exposures. About 11% of the 46 funds with $980 billion in assets under management (representing about 43% of the industry) ...

ECB disengages from currency war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2017
... optimism on the economic outlook and hope that (eventually) inflation will pick up, there's the hint of concern over the currency. "An appreciating exchange rate would be expected to result in a slower pick-up in economic activity and inflation than ...

Trump and Kim go ballistic

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2017
... du'jour". But even that was not high enough compared to 2016's high of 27.59 triggered by China's devaluation of its currency and expectations of a sharp slowdown in its economy. This is not to say that the fear gauge won't increase further or sell downs ...

Less room for mid-tier asset managers: Stern

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2017
... illustrate, he proposed an investment: selling Swiss francs to buy Indian rupees. He suggested francs are an overvalued currency by around 10 to 15%, and argued that you could make a six to 8% carry on the rupee. "Call your banker. Try to get in. Say ...

FinaMetrica merges with global software provider

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 8 AUG 2017
... build global scale. In addition, both companies will continue to offer their stand-alone products - innovative multi-currency, multi-jurisdiction financial and investment planning software from PlanPlus; and personal financial risk tolerance measurement ...

Low-flation to lower-flation?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUL 2017
... from US$0.7935 before the CPI report's release. No problems here, especially with regards to the lowered value of the currency's implication for stoking both growth and inflation. The problem is the Fed. It's also struggling with low inflation which ...

Inflation matters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUL 2017
... rising household debt). Likewise, higher UK rates would presumably (but not necessarily) underpin appreciation in the currency, reducing the UK's export competitiveness. Even factoring out Brexit uncertainty, these would exert downward pressure on economic ...

Ignition Wealth begins European expansion

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 24 JUL 2017
... Ignition Wealth also open to opportunities arising elsewhere in Europe as its technology is both multi-language and multi-currency. Ignition Wealth said its digital financial advice technology will provide the Irish advice market with operational efficiencies ...