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Pinnacle boutique launches Cayman fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... is the best way to exploit opportunities across Asia. "Divergent central bank policies on interest rates and foreign exchange, equity market dispersion, and temporary dislocations caused by the dominance of retail flows are combining to make Asian markets ...

ASX appoints compliance chief

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... mid-2022. ASX Corporate Governance Council chair Elizabeth Johnstone thanked Lewis for his decade of service to the stock exchange. "I wish to acknowledge the enormous contribution Kevin has made to the Council and to corporate governance standards in ...

Chinese tech giant buys 5% stake in Afterpay

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2020
... online entertainment, digital advertising, social media, fintech and cloud services provider listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange. Its communications platforms include Weixin, WeChat and QQ. It also has a digital payments service, Weixin Pay, which ...

Sargon buyers tap former PEXA chief as adviser

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020
... readies a new group structure for Sargon's operating businesses. Marcus Price was the chief executive of Property Exchange Australia from 2010 to October last year. After Sargon Capital had administrators appointed in late January upon defaulting ...

Pandemic puts pressure on ETF spreads

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2020
The spreads on many exchange-traded products were wider than usual amid the COVID-19 market crash, with price discovery becoming increasingly more difficult. That's according to ETF Securities co-head of sales Kanish Chugh, who pointed to global equity ...

Australian fund regulation below average: Morningstar

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... with other markets in the study, creating distortions and disincentives to invest." The continued success and growth of exchange traded products has allowed investors to have more choice, the research house said. "Distributors still have more incentive ...

COVID-19 ETP market winners, losers

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
New Rainmaker research has revealed the winners and losers in the exchange traded product (ETP) market during the quarter to March's COVID-19 induced volatility. March 2020 was characterised by sharp falls and rises in equities as investors grappled ...

Bitcoin bonanza amid COVID-19 crisis

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
... institutions to develop investment vehicles to meet that demand," De Corrado said. "For example, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), the world's largest financial derivatives exchange added Bitcoin futures contracts in December 2017." While the ...

ASX ups capital raise capacity

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020
The Australian Securities Exchange announced changes to the temporary lift in placement capacity from 15% to 25% and increased transparency rules. The ASX said the measures are conditional on entities either doing a follow-on accelerated pro rata entitlement ...

The next big short

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... of the pandemic, could there still be a darker evil lying beneath? Passive investments, such as indexed strategies or exchange-traded products, had been inflating asset prices, Burry argued, just as collateralised debt obligations (CDOs) and credit default ...