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Fox urges advisers to become professionals

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 21 FEB 2017
Professionalism, trust, and gaining public confidence were the key takeaway messages from AFA chief executive Brad Fox at this year's Genxt Connect Tour. Speaking to a crowded Sydney ballroom, Fox plead financial advisers to take the financial standards ...

Rothschild snaps up former Goldman Sachs exec

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2017
In an expansion of its equity capital markets advisory business, a former Goldman Sachs executive will join Rothschild Global Advisory. Previously head of equities for Goldman Sachs' Australian and New Zealand business, David Acton has been appointed ...

Trump's tweets and deeds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2017
The times they are a-changin'. Three major central banks - the Bank of Japan (BOJ), the US Federal Reserve (Fed) and the Bank of England (BOE) - one day after another last week but did many give a hoot? Sure, it was hardly news because all three kept ...

A-dollar rising

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2017
Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi! Australia's legal tender is again doing the rounds of the headlines. Disappointment over Trump's press conference last week - he talked and talked about everything except about his economic policies - brought the ...

Alpha generation to trump in 2017

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2017
Hedge fund managers will enjoy a strong 2017 if they focus on capturing value, according to 50 South Capital director of research John Frede. Frede said the markets are entering a period where fundamentals are driving security prices, as evidenced by ...

Hedge fund standards board expands APAC team

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 10 JAN 2017
The Hedge Fund Standards Board (HFSB) made two appointments to its Asia-Pacific committee. LIM Advisors founder and chief investment officer George Long, and Dymon Capital Asia chief investment officer Danny Yong join the global standard-setting body ...

2017 set for private equity buyout record

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 5 JAN 2017
It is early days but 2017 is set to become a record year for private equity-backed buyout deals, according to Preqin research. The research found that in 2016 there were 3985 deals recorded, representing a total value of US$319 billion. Preqin said ...

Advice from abroad

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JAN 2017
An expat, a father and lover of all things social, Brett Evans is not your average financial adviser. From an early age Evans knew finance was the right place for him and flourished in the uncertainty and challenge of each day. "I love the industry ...

Guest of honour

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 3 JAN 2017
The Commonwealth Bank asked Barry Lambert to stay on as chair of Count Financial for two years following the bank's acquisition - he asked them for two years and two months. Confused, the bank asked him why. He told them, "If I stay on until January ...

Fintech grows through adviser platform

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 DEC 2016
... client's goals and risk profile. It can then execute the trades in under one hour. Macrovue co-founder and chief executive Sid Sahgal said there are advisers are still using manual trading systems or paper and telephones to buy and sell global stocks. ...