Attached is a copy of an ASX presentation to investors that will be delivered at the Australian Macquarie Securities Conference held in Sydney on 4 and 5 May 2016.
ASX Presentation To Macquarie Conference
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tiviti Expands Support Of Equity Options Markets - Itiviti Adds ISE And PHLX To Expand Equity Options Market Reach - Plans For Connectivity To BATS
Itiviti, a world-leading technology provider for the capital markets industry, today announced the release of two new gateways in the equity options space, augmenting the current offering of Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) and CBOE’s C2 with connectivity to Nasdaq PHLX and the International Securities Exchange (ISE).
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Qatar Stock Exchange Organizes London Forum To Promote Investment In Qatari Listed Companies
Qatar Stock Exchange (QSE), in coordination with Goldman Sachs, today commenced in London a roadshow that aims to promote investment in the Qatari companies listed on QSE and support their investor relations practices.
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Ljubljana Stock Exchange: Monthly Statistical Report April 2016
Click here to download comprehensive monthly statistics of the Ljubljana Stock Exchange for April 2016.
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Euronext Announces Volumes For April 2016
Euronext, the leading exchange in the Eurozone, today announced trading volumes for April 2016.
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Taiwan Stock Exchange Outlines Future Development Plans At âInvest Taiwan, Kuala Lumpurâ Forum
The Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE) outlined the many advantages of investing in the Taiwan market, as well as its future development plans, at the ‘Invest Taiwan, Kuala Lumpur’ Forum held today in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
During his opening remarks, Mr. Chien Lih-chung, Senior Executive Vice President of the TWSE, outlined the exchange’s main focuses for the remainder of 2016 in the areas of corporate governance, as well as reforms to the ETF market, including:
- Expanding the availability of e-voting and setup of audit committees at listed companies;
- Promoting the upcoming Stewardship Code for institutional investors;
- Extending trading hours for offshore ETFs; and
- Increasing the number of foreign markets covered by ETFs listed on TWSE, as well as the number of ETF dual-listings.
The ‘Invest Taiwan, Kuala Lumpur’ Forum was jointly organized by TWSE, Sinopec Securities and RHB Banking Group. The corporate governance-focused event bought together 80 institutional investors from across Malaysia and Taiwan with ten Shariah-compliant Taiwan-listed companies. These companies are also constituents of the FTSE TWSE Taiwan Shariah Index, which launched in 2008.
“The TWSE has been extremely active in marketing the Taiwan capital market to international audiences, particularly the presence of the ‘3Ps’ of Pricing (reasonable P/E ratios), Prosperity (high turnover rates) and Profitability (high dividend yields) in Taiwan. We are also taking steps to encourage better corporate governance and transparency following the launch of the Corporate Governance Roadmap and the establishment of the Corporate Governance Center together with Taiwan’s Financial Supervisory Commission. We also look forward to introducing more market reforms and deregulations, while also diversifying the range of financial products available on TWSE, in order to attract more global investors and to stimulate the market,” said Mr. Chien.
- Expanding the availability of e-voting and setup of audit committees at listed companies;
- Promoting the upcoming Stewardship Code for institutional investors;
- Extending trading hours for offshore ETFs; and
- Increasing the number of foreign markets covered by ETFs listed on TWSE, as well as the number of ETF dual-listings.
The ‘Invest Taiwan, Kuala Lumpur’ Forum was jointly organized by TWSE, Sinopec Securities and RHB Banking Group. The corporate governance-focused event bought together 80 institutional investors from across Malaysia and Taiwan with ten Shariah-compliant Taiwan-listed companies. These companies are also constituents of the FTSE TWSE Taiwan Shariah Index, which launched in 2008.
“The TWSE has been extremely active in marketing the Taiwan capital market to international audiences, particularly the presence of the ‘3Ps’ of Pricing (reasonable P/E ratios), Prosperity (high turnover rates) and Profitability (high dividend yields) in Taiwan. We are also taking steps to encourage better corporate governance and transparency following the launch of the Corporate Governance Roadmap and the establishment of the Corporate Governance Center together with Taiwan’s Financial Supervisory Commission. We also look forward to introducing more market reforms and deregulations, while also diversifying the range of financial products available on TWSE, in order to attract more global investors and to stimulate the market,” said Mr. Chien.
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CFTC Swaps Report Update
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Thomson Reuters To Present At The Barclays Americas Select Franchise Conference 2016
David Craig, president of the Financial & Risk business of Thomson Reuters (TSX/NYSE: TRI), the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, will present at the Barclays Americas Select Franchise Conference on Tuesday, May 17, 2016 at 9:50 a.m. BST (4:50 a.m. EDT). The presentation may include forward looking information.
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How Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders Discovered the Gold Mine in Sweat
 |  | The current economic climate renders traditional “buy and sleep investing” – where you sock away your 401K and don’t touch it again until retirement – completely ineffective. Today, the bottom line is that everybody needs the ability to make smart investing decisions on their own. However, cutting through the constant clutter, “expert” opinions and fancy models makes learning how, where and why to invest next to impossible for the average investor |
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Inside the New Economy of Mind and Body
 | | In a modern world filled with anxiety, pressure, and competition, people are spending more time and money than ever before to soothe their minds and tone their bodies, sometimes pushing themselves to the most extreme limits. Even as obesity rates hit an all-time high, the most financially successful among us are collectively spending billions each year on apparel, gear, and entry fees. |
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NZX April 2016 Shareholder Metrics
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Modeling and Simulation of the Economics of Mining in the Bitcoin Market. (arXiv:1605.01354v1 [q-fin.TR])
In January 3, 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto gave rise to the "Bitcoin Block Chain" creating the first block of the chain hashing on his computers central processing unit (CPU). Since then, the hash calculations to mine Bitcoin have been getting more and more complex, and consequently the mining hardware evolved to adapt to this increasing difficulty. Three generations of mining hardware have followed the CPU's generation. They are GPU's, FPGA's and ASIC's generations. This work presents an agent based artificial market model of the Bitcoin mining process and of the Bitcoin transactions. The goal of this work is to model the economy of the mining process, starting from GPU's generation, the first with economic significance. The model reproduces some "stylized facts" found in real time price series and some core aspects of the mining business. In particular, the computational experiments performed are able to reproduce the unit root property, the fat tail phenomenon and the volatility clustering of Bitcoin price series. In addition, under proper assumptions, they are able to reproduce the price peak at the end of November 2013, its next fall in April 2014, the generation of Bitcoins, the hashing capability, the power consumption, and the mining hardware and electrical energy expenses of the Bitcoin network.
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Electoral Systems Used around the World. (arXiv:1605.01343v1 [q-fin.EC])
We give an overview of the diverse electoral systems used in local, national, or super-national elections around the world. We discuss existing methods for selecting single and multiple winners and give real-world examples for some more elaborate systems. Eventually, we elaborate on some of the better known strengths and weaknesses of various methods from both the theoretical and practical points of view.
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Arbitrage and hedging with liquid American options. (arXiv:1605.01327v1 [q-fin.MF])
We generalize the fundamental theorem of asset pricing (FTAP) and hedging dualities in \cite{ZZ8} to the case where the investor can short American options. Following arXiv:1502.06681, we assume that the longed American options are divisible. As for the shorted American options, we show that the divisibility plays no role regarding arbitrage property and hedging prices. Then using the method of enlarging probability spaces proposed in arXiv:1604.05517, we convert the shorted American options to European options, and establish the FTAP and sub- and super-hedging dualities in the enlarged space both with and without model uncertainty.
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Lie symmetries of (1+2) nonautonomous evolution equations in Financial Mathematics. (arXiv:1605.01071v1 [math.AP])
We analyse two classes of $(1+2)$ evolution equations which are of special interest in Financial Mathematics, namely the Two-dimensional Black-Scholes Equation and the equation for the Two-factor Commodities Problem. Our approach is that of Lie Symmetry Analysis. We study these equations for the case in which they are autonomous and for the case in which the parameters of the equations are unspecified functions of time. For the autonomous Black-Scholes Equation we find that the symmetry is maximal and so the equation is reducible to the $(1+2)$ Classical Heat Equation. This is not the case for the nonautonomous equation for which the number of symmetries is submaximal. In the case of the two-factor equation the number of symmetries is submaximal in both autonomous and nonautonomous cases. When the solution symmetries are used to reduce each equation to a $(1+1)$ equation, the resulting equation is of maximal symmetry and so equivalent to the $(1+1)$ Classical Heat Equation.
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Regrets, learning and wisdom. (arXiv:1605.01052v1 [physics.soc-ph])
This contribution discusses in what respect Econophysics may be able to contribute to the rebuilding of economics theory. It focuses on aggregation, individual vs collective learning and functional wisdom of the crowds.
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The Accidental Entrepreneur: The Juicy Bits
In The Accidental Entrepreneur, author Janine Allis shares the secrets and skills that took her from housewife to entrepreneur to head of a multi-national corporation. As the founder of Boost Juice, Janine has journeyed from zero formal business training to leading a company with over 400 stores in 12 countries. This book takes you down the long road that she travelled, including some
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Zukunftsmodell Kooperation: Leitgedanken und Erfolgskriterien für Unternehmen und Organisationen, 2. Auflage
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ASIC: Macquarie Equities Limited - Conclusion Of 12-Month Program Of Work
ASIC has confirmed finalisation of the 12-month program of work agreed to by Macquarie Equities Limited (MEL) that was announced in February 2015.
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The Business Blockchain: Promise, Practice, and Application of the Next Internet Technology
 | | In his new book The Business Blockchain with a foreword by Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum’s inventor, long time industry insider William Mougayar charts new territory in advancing our understanding of the blockchain by unpacking its elements like no other before. |
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