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Industry groups slam SEC plan to limit derivatives

WHITNEY FITZSIMMONS  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2016
... requirements, as well as prospectus disclosure and effective risk management," Cameron added. The move by the SEC is the third in a series of rule changes designed to enhance the corporate regulator's risk monitoring and regulatory safeguards for funds ...

Small caps beating blue chips: Lonsec

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2016
... the S&P/ASX Small Ordinaries Index returned 10.2% in 2015, compared to the 2.6% return of the ASX 200. "Finally, after a series of negative returns, Australian small caps have turned the market on its head. What we have seen from small caps as a sector ...

Quant hedge fund arrives down under

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2016
... US, London, and Paris over the past year and is now bringing its offering to Australia. As part of the fund's launch a series of outreach events for local practicing and aspirational quants are being held, beginning this weekend. Quantopian is funded ...

European Cities Fund to take advantage of future proof cities

WHITNEY FITZSIMMONS  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2016
... local expertise in real estate, we are excited to launch what we hope will be the first fund in a long-term, global product series," Mitchell said. Over 200 European cities were assessed based on three major factors; quality of life and technology, urbanisation ...

Four bazookas and a phrase

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2016
... includes government bonds, bank issued covered bonds and asset asset-back securities. TLTRO II. "...we decided to launch a new series of four targeted longer-term refinancing operations (TLTRO II), starting in June 2016, each with a maturity of four ...

Energy Super ramps aged care advice

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2016
... $6 billion fund bolstering its personalised advice to clients, financial advisers have used their training to roll out a series of free aged care seminars to members across Queensland. Energy Super chief executive Robyn Petrou said aged care had become ...

RBNZ cuts rates, biased towards further easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2016
... depreciated by around 18.9% vis-A -vis the greenback between April (US$0.7717) and September 2015 (US$0.6259) - a function of the series of rate reductions (started in June last year) that took the country's official cash rate from 3.5% to 2.75% by September ...

Crouching services, contracting manufacturing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2016
... February) to 17% for big banks. It's still early days but the PBOC seems to be following last year's scripts when it began a series of policy easing - it cut the RRR rate from 20% to 19.5% in February 2015, followed up with a reduction in its benchmark ...

Aussie jobs trend is our friend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2016
... gain. That data point has since been revised to up 4,000. This is the reason why "The ABS encourages the use of the trend series" because "The trend series smooth the more volatile seasonally adjusted estimates and provide the best measure of the underlying ...

Adviser roadshow shines light on modern-day advice

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2016
... average funds under advice (FUA) per adviser also rose to $34.4 million over the same period. The AFA Genxt roadshow is a series of events held nationally and dedicated to the educational needs of younger financial advisers.