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Nasdaq proposes diversity rules

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2020
... companies to have at least one female and one person who identifies as either an underrepresented minority or LGBTQ+ on boards. Nasdaq has filed the proposal with the US Securities and Exchange Commission that also requests companies to publicly disclose ...

US wealth manager acquires three Aussie firms

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2020
NASDAQ listed Focus Financial Partners has created a new network of boutique financial advice firms and acquired three Australian businesses. Focus launched Connectus on December 1 in the US, and now the first Australian advice firms to join the boutique ...

ASX market outage lasts all day

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR, KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2020
... which is the trading platform for ASX's equity market. The issue was identified by the ASX and its technology partner Nasdaq as a software issue limited to the trading of multiple securities in a single order creating inaccurate market data. The ...

Pengana launches new Israel equities fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2020
... including pre-IPO raises. Companies can be listed on either the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange or ex-Israel exchanges such as NASDAQ-listed companies. Israel has over 450 listed companies, about 64 of which are cross-listed abroad. More than 27 multinational ...

Chief economist update: Good or bad news is good Wall Street news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2020
... 23.4% in the FTSE-100, or even the Nikkei-225's almost flat (-0.1%) performance. Not to mention (but I have to), the Nasdaq composite index's 28.4% surged so far this year goes against all logic considering the state of the US economy which is ...

BetaShares' Nasdaq ETF surpasses $1bn

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2020
BetaShares' Nasdaq 100 ETF exceeded $1 billion in assets under management at the end of August, a net increase of more than $500 million since the outset of the year. As of the end of August, the ETF had $1.17 billion in AUM. Around $300 million of ...

Masterfund assets decline

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2020
... including those in Australia and the UK have not and the situation remains very volatile with the previously high flying US NASDAQ tech index diving 10% in the past couple of weeks," the report said.

Chief economist update: A tiny bug takes down the largest economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020
... Street wasn't so perturbed - the Dow went down by just 0.9%; S&P 500 gave up 0.4%; the Russell 2000 by 0.4%; while the Nasdaq even closed with a 0.4% gain. This is easy to explain. Apart from being "better" than consensus expectations for a 34.1% ...

State Street warns of dot-com parallels

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2020
... The index which tracks healthcare companies has only rallied 13% over the same timeframe. For a global comparison, the NASDAQ 100 Index, which includes heavyweights Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Alphabet (Google's parent company) and Facebook, has rallied ...

Best performing managed funds revealed

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2020
... to day basis," Rainmaker said. "The strategy is to follow a constructed index as closely as possible, in this case the Nasdaq Future Global Sustainability Leaders Index, and the charge to investors is a modest (compared to active portfolios run by actual ...