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Chief economist update: ECB gives PEPP talk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAR 2021
It's not what the European Central Bank (ECB) did at its March governing council meeting - keeping monetary policy settings unchanged - but its PEPP (pandemic emergency purchase programme) talk that sent the Euro Stoxx-50 index on the up and up. ...

CFA unveils December exam results

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021
... exam have passed, global results from the institute shows. The CFA Institute announced 12,806 of the 26,212 or 49% of Level I candidates passed their examination in the December 2020 sitting. Fifty-five percent or 10,025 of the 18,136 Level II candidates ...

CFA Institute offers free exam deferral

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2021
The CFA Institute is allowing all candidates registered for the Level I exam in February to defer to later in the year for free and without providing a reason. "While we remain confident that most locations will successfully administer February Level ...

Chief economist update: Overvaluation tests FOMO and TINA trades

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2021
Wall Street's down. Repeat, Wall Street's down! The CBOE VIX index - the fear gauge - jumped by 9.5% in the last trading day of the first month of 2021 to 33.09 points, marking the highest since the renewed COVID-19 outbreak in Europe that subsequently ...

Challenger welcomes board director

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2021
The investment management firm has appointed a former government secretary as a non-executive director. Heather Smith has 20 years' experience in the Australian public service sector and was previously secretary of the Department of Industry, Innovation ...

Former Trump aide launches crypto fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021
The former communications director of outgoing US President Donald Trump has launched a cryptocurrency hedge fund. Anthony Scaramucci, the founder and managing partner of US$7 billion alternative investment manager SkyBridge Capital, has launched SkyBridge ...

Raiz appoints new chair

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020
Raiz Invest has announced the appointment of a new chair with a background in digital marketing focusing on growth companies. Kevin Moore is set to take the position of chair and non-executive director. He is a digital market specialist with a long ...

Risk but no reward in institutional equities portfolios

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2020
Northern Trust Asset Management peeked into the equities portfolios of 200 institutional managers and found nearly 66% of the risk they took didn't yield rewards. The quant manager studied 200 portfolios (1000 strategies totaling $200 billion plus in ...

Chief economist update: Money buys happiness

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020
Happy consumer makes the economy grow stronger. The result of the latest Westpac-Melbourne Institute consumer sentiment survey disproves the aged-old adage that "money doesn't buy happiness". Australian consumer sentiment surged by 11.9% to a reading ...

Stanford Brown adds partner

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2020
Stanford Brown has welcomed a new partner and financial adviser to the firm shortly after it named a new chief executive. Nicky Boustred has joined as a private wealth adviser and shareholder, after running Nixon Boustred Advisory, a financial planning ...