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ASIC cancels AFSL, bans responsible managers

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2016
... recently cancelled the Australian financial services licence of Brisbane-based education and training business, The Sharemarket College. ASIC said the Sharemarket College failed to comply with a number of its obligations as a financial services licensee. ...

SSGA Aussie equity fund added to Asgard platform

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2016
... fund's success reflects not only the returns which could be achieved by truly active stock selection in a volatile sharemarket but also that end investors had been exposed to significantly less risk, as measured by standard deviation, in achieving those ...

Advisers halt HNW slide

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2016
... Australian HNW investor's portfolio. Whilst the property market remained buoyant, the slump in commodity prices and sharemarket volatility throughout the year weighed down on overall asset growth." Whilst 2012/2013 saw a decisive shift in HNWs embracing ...

More negatives

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2016
The Japanese economy shrinks, the Japanese sharemarket sings hallelujah! If this still doesn't capture the "bad news is good news" meme, we might never, never know what will. The Nikkei-225 index soared by 7.2% at the end of yesterday's trade. It even ...

BetaShares Australian share fund gets Lonsec approval

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2016
... markets fall," he said. "The risk management strategy used by AUST mitigates these concerns, by actively monitoring sharemarket volatility, and applying a handbrake when volatility rises to reduce the impact of major market declines." The fund is the ...

Economic experts still defensive in 2016

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2016
... economic experts has told Morningstar that financial markets may have been overreacting to volatility in the Chinese sharemarket, overplaying risks to respective economies. The discussion earlier this month also said Australia's economic outlook continued ...

ETFs benefit from market volatility: SSGA

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2016
... ASX in a single trade. "During times of market uncertainty many investors want (or need) to remain invested in the sharemarket, but higher levels of uncertainty make it more difficult to identify opportunities," Skelly said. "Keep in mind that companies ...

ASX jumps "despite" naughty news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2015
... trawl Australian opportunities and not to sell, but to buy, especially after the underperformance of the Australian sharemarket over recent months," said Altair Asset Management chief economist Stephen Roberts. William Blair's chief economist, Olga Bitel ...

Vanguard Australian Shares leads monthly ETF inflows

JOHN DYALL  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2015
... fund that's ideally suited to volatile markets as it provides around a two-for one inverse exposure to the Australian sharemarket. In other words, when the Australian sharemarket falls 10%, the fund returns around 20%. On the other hand, if the market ...

ETF inflows defy choppy markets

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2015
... totals are not as great, the BetaShares Australian Equities Strong Bear (Hedge Fund), which profits when the Australian sharemarket falls, and the BetaShares Geared Australian Equity Fund (Hedge Fund), which profits on a two-for-one basis when the sharemarket ...