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Arming human traders for big-ticket trades

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2019
... traders, not just quantitative aspects. "If you are a trader preparing to execute a large trade, you will have to find the liquidity but if there are any anomalies in the market the software can alert you to it." The way it works is: traders load their ...

Equity investors will struggle in 2019: Baur

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2019
... stocks higher, Baur explained. Investors therefore have to adjust to a new monetary environment as central banks withdraw liquidity. The good and the bad news, Baur said, is that 2019 will be a "year of two halves." Share markets will struggle on one ...

Freedom Insurance suspends trading

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2019
... will overhaul its business model and stop selling life insurance products. It warned shareholders it will likely face a liquidity crisis in 2019. The board of the embattled insurer decided to search for alternative business models after a strategic review ...

Fund managers embrace China exposure: Zenith

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2019
... inclusion in mainstream international equities benchmarks will likely result in increased broker research and greater liquidity. "As more China A-Shares are introduced, the composition of the emerging market index will change with increased exposure ...

Aussie equities trading volume jumps at Liquidnet

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2019
... participant. Liquidnet head of Australia Kate Weidenhofer said: "We've had great success in helping asset managers to find liquidity in the Australian market, in what's clearly become a more competitive environment given the global regulatory ...

Avenir eyes insto investors

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2019
... scalable. Even if we were to hold 25 positions without putting more than 10% of the fund into one stock, and require the liquidity to get in and out of a positioning in 30 days without taking up more than a third of the daily trading volume, we would ...

Advice dealer group seeks ASX listing

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2019
... also consider investing directly in advice businesses. Funds raised from the IPO will enable company growth and provide liquidity assurance for investors, as well as providing the capital required to take advantage of opportunities in the industry, AD ...

Alternatives an antidote to volatility: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2019
... constructing an alternative asset portfolio requires greater discipline. "Especially in today's late cycle - when liquidity becomes more precious, income becomes scarce, risk and correlations are a growing concern, and information and control can ...

Fed's pause becomes the ECB's problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
... date of a first increase in the key ECB interest rates, and in any case for as long as necessary to maintain favourable liquidity conditions and an ample degree of monetary accommodation".

Joint venture to set new ETF standard

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2019
... iShares solution suite, and also result in tangible benefits to unitholders of the RBC Index ETFs including greater liquidity associated with the larger iShares ETFs and historically more favorable spreads on the secondary market, which will ultimately ...