This Month
RBC shops at Morgan Stanley for hedge fund sales trader
Head of equities Karen Jorritsma told staff in an internal memo on Thursday the investment bank had lured across Sutton from Morgan Stanley.
March
Global banks may outsource bond trading operations
Big banks are talking about renting trading capabilities from firms such as Citadel Securities, but the savings might not be worth it.
February
This investing platform wants a piece of Australia’s $4trn super pot
Street Talk can reveal start-up Pearler is weeks away from launching a superannuation fund and has raised $3 million from its investor base.
Singaporean suitor gatecrashes Bell Potter’s party at Selfwealth
Sources said Syfe is being advised by Sydney’s LoftusLane Capital Partners and acquired anywhere between 15 per cent to 19.99 per cent of Selfwealth on Friday.
January
What traders can learn from elite tennis players
Discipline, emotional control and resilience are all skills that professional tennis players epitomise, and skills any aspiring day trader will need to master.
The $18.4trn reason to listen to BlackRock’s three lessons in 2025
Wall Street and its biggest investors like the global investment giant influence the ASX more than anything else. That’s why you need to listen.
Earnings turning point gives ASX bears plenty to think about
Shares prices have raced away while company profits have gone backwards. What happens if earnings start going up, too?
November 2024
Investors need to know when to put down the phone
Smartphone alerts can promote what behaviourists call “overtrading”, shredding your returns – and your nerves.
Bitcoin bursts past $US94,000 for the first time
The cryptocurrency was turbocharged by news that Donald Trump’s company was in talks to buy a digital token trading firm.
Betashares’ no-fee broking ignites intense competition for investors
The start of free transactions for the first time in Australia comes as Bell Financial snaps up popular low-cost platform Selfwealth for $51 million.
July 2024
Markets owe it to themselves to fill in the black holes
Questions are being asked over bond market trading because market players no longer feel the incentive to police their own reputations among their own number.
Jarden pitches a new service for big emitters: carbon trading
The investment bank’s new carbon trading platform will complement an energy transition advisory team led by Matt Kean’s former chief of staff.
Small caps’ wild EOFY ride exposes market’s dirty little secret
Monday’s list of worst performers looked like Friday’s best performers turned upside down. It was laughable.
June 2024
How to feed super funds Australian shares while they’re hungry
It’s good to see someone think about the huge and growing pile of Australian superannuation money, and the need to give funds more ways to invest in public Australian equities.
Bitcoin on the ASX opens investors to a world of pumpers and spruikers
But Binance’s regional boss Vishal Sacheendran is making a surprise call – in an interview, he says there needs to be more regulation, not less.
Digital world wants, real world needs: Chook’s next 50 years
The battle for physical world assets shifts to those things that will underpin the digital world in the next 50 years. It will be a bigger battle, and Chanticleer will be there to cover it.
Dogs of the ASX in for a hard time
In case a softening economy, Nvidia rally and consumer pain didn’t make it hard enough to make money, attention has turned to tax loss selling. There are plenty of candidates this year.
May 2024
Openmarkets test drives bid for Integrated Portfolio Solutions
The 14-year-old investment administration platform was put up for sale via Berkshire Global Advisors late last year.
April 2024
$2 trades: Superhero opens a new front in the broker fee war
Street Talk can reveal the online share trading platform will on Monday announce the most significant changes to its pricing since its launch in 2020.
March 2024
Equity traps in the growing pool of share schemes
Anna Ross crowdfunded capital to get her beauty empire off the ground, but some small-time investors have become desperate to get their money back.