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Open banking regime to boost advice

DARREN SNYDER, KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2018
... discussions with clients will shift to obtaining quantitative information - bank accounts, loans, super funds, property valuation feeds and so on. As that comes together, Patty says the next phase is adding more value in terms of protecting clients from ...

Thomson Reuters sells analytics business to institutional investors

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2018
... new corporation to hold the financial and risk business. Thomson Reuters will retain a 45% equity stake, at an overall valuation of US$20 billion ($24.9bn). Thomson Reuters F&R is a data and financial technology platform that provides information and ...

Unlisted infrastructure assets hit record high

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2018
The global unlisted infrastructure industry is now three times the size of its GFC levels, hitting a record high of US$418 billion in assets under management, latest Preqin research shows. The year to June 2017 saw a record number of deals take place ...

Chief economist update: The spook on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2018
... then wages, then spending. These suggest that, in time, company earnings would catch up with the Wall Street's lofty valuation. And if you want to cite history, just look where Wall Street went after Brexit or after August last year. Ben Ong is the Director ...

Equity factor investing undergoes further examination

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2018
... ultimately aware of the difficulties and the technical progress to be achieved to master dynamic factor allocation. "Although valuation-based methods have been widely criticised in academia both for the value bias introduced and for their effectiveness ...

EY issues ICO theft warning

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2018
Investors have lost about US$400 million in the initial coin offering (ICO) market due to theft and cyberattacks, a new EY report shows. EY studied 372 ICO projects globally in 2017 that raised US$3.7 billion in funds - twice the volume of venture capital ...

High valuations drive insto investors to alternatives: BlackRock

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2018
2018 will see global institutional investors significantly ramping up allocations to alternatives and real assets in light of continuing low interest rates and high valuations for risk assets, according to BlackRock research. BlackRock's 2018 Global ...

HLB Mann Judd revises AFSL

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2018
A division of financial services firm HLB Mann Judd can no longer provide independent expert advice under an agreement with ASIC. The corporate regulator has accepted a voluntary variation of the AFSL held by HLB Mann Judd Melbourne's corporate finance ...

Only way is up for global economy: Baur

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 9 JAN 2018
Giving his 2018 Financial Standard Chief Economists Forum preview, Principal Global Investors chief global economist Bob Baur says it's hard to find any near-term threats to the global economy. Speaking to Financial Standard, Baur said the world economy ...

Getting better and betterer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JAN 2018
There's certainly no denying that the bulls ruled Wall Street over the course of 2017 with its record breaking feat splattered all over the financial headlines one day after another. Less focused on was the fact that the S&P 500, the DJIA and the Nasdaq ...