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Saxo Capital Markets adds share options to platform

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
... the growing appetite for stock options among both institutional and retail investors. In particular, recent market volatility has provided attractive investment opportunities for options traders, and investors are becoming more aware of how they can ...

Risk management top concern for sovereign wealth funds

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2014
... the biggest challenge over the next two years, while 37% said the biggest challenge would be managing emerging market volatility. Meanwhile 25% expressed concern over the management of complexity around alternative investments. The majority of respondents ...

Margin lending through advisers shrank in 2013

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
... "Many barriers to increased usage of margin lending have softened among brokers, especially those relating to market volatility and interest rates," Shahed said.

AMP opens three funds to retail investors

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
... Dynamic Markets Fund is targeted towards investors, such as accumulators or pre-retirees, who are concerned about market volatility and are looking for a cost-effective way to access active management. The fund adopts a dynamic asset allocation investment ...

Bottoms up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2014
... The US subprime mortgage crisis that morphed into what is now termed as the global financial crisis sparked market volatility and heightened investor anxiety in most equity markets around the world. These -- along with the economic recessions they induced ...

No guarantee

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
... speculators that they're not getting their yuan lunches for free no more and/or that it's introducing currency market volatility in preparation for the expected widening of its yuan trading band from 1% to 2% in the next 2-3 months. News over the weekend ...

Catching the big wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2014
... speculators that they're not getting their yuan lunches for free no more and/or that it's introducing currency market volatility in preparation for the expected widening of its yuan trading band from 1% to 2% in the next 2-3 months. A perfectly rational ...

Macquarie says market conditions improving

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2014
... recent improvements in market conditions persist. "Consistent with our previous statement to the market, while market volatility makes forecasting difficult, we continue to expect the FY14 (2014 fiscal year) net profit contribution from operating groups ...

I swear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2014
... Turkey, Brazil, India and South Africa intensifies." And who invests in European banks? And what's the emerging market volatility doing to the yen? It's sending it up. And what's the higher yen doing? It's putting pressure on Japanese exporters and soon ...

Another 10 bil to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2014
... of the United States."...and St. Louis Fed's James Bullard: "We're not going to make policy based on emerging-market volatility alone." Sowee there's one more...not continuing to taper now when the signs are flashing green would cost the Fed its credibility. ...