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Instinet launches Newport 3

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2009
... other things, the platform is "entirely broker neutral", doing away with potential conflicts of interest and a narrower field of broker-dealers that clients can trade with. It also allows clients to customise the Instinet Execution Experts algorithm ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2009
... average rose 0.8 per cent to its highest in more than seven months, buoyed by commodity-linked firms such as oil and gas field developer Inpex and shippers like Mitsui O.S.K. Lines on growing expectations of demand from China. The benchmark Nikkei rose ...

AustralianSuper hires Inalytics

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2009
... after the super fund hired research consultancy firm Inalytics to assess the skills of the underlying fund managers. Amanda Field, managing director at Inalytics, said AustralianSuper hired the firm to quantitatively analyse the fund's multi managers' ...

Mixed reaction on shorting ban lift

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
... Lending Association also applauded the lifting of the ban, stating that the move will put Australia back at a "level playing field" with other major developed markets. However, "any re-imposition will simply fuel ongoing market uncertainty for investors ...

Beware the Budgets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2009
... something that may not happen but is prudent to be conscious of and prepared for, just in case. Just in case something from left field knocks the wind off the gradual but steady stabilisation in the economy. Just in case consumers and taxpayers clam ...

Bank guarantee must stay in place

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2009
... said arguments that the government should make changes to remove anomalies arising from its guarantee or tilt the playing field to help certain groups ignored the big picture. "The issue we face, as our long-running current account deficit shows, is ...

Super queries drop despite GFC

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2009
If you think investors are frantically ringing super fund call centres to ask about their investments, guess again - the number of calls fielded by Pillar Administration has fallen since the start of the GFC, said Peter Beck, the firm's chief executive. ...

Savings paradox

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2009
... consumers' balance sheets but woeful for the economy overall as it needs money to churn to keep production activity going. In the field, this is known as the 'paradox of thrift' theorised by John Maynard Keynes (for a man who's been dead for more than ...

Advisers turn to unlisted property

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2009
... executive chairman of GDI Property Group, views this year as a sterling opportunity to get back into the property playing field. Veale said 2009 promises to be a "one-in-20 year opportunity" with high commercial property yields, very low interest rates ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2009
The Australian market has received a strong lead from Wall Street, although precious metals were down. Copper and oil both were up, however. At 0808 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was 70 points HIGHER at 3,385. In economic ...