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Proxy advisors have 'undue influence': Jamie Dimon

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2024
... to review the large number of proxies and proxy proposals - this is both lazy and wrong. If issues are important to a company, they should be important to the shareholder - for the most part, only a handful of proposals are important to companies," he ...

ASIC challenges court ruling in Finder Wallet crypto case

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2024
... product, Finder Earn. ASIC alleged that the Finder Earn product was a debenture which is essentially an agreement by a company to repay money deposited or lent to it. The regulator claimed that customers deposited money with Finder Wallet on the understanding ...

Mercury Capital acquires KKR's stake in Findex

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2024
... solutions to more than 100 locations across Australia and New Zealand, Games added that this partnership will help the company achieve its goal to triple in size over the next five years. Mercury Capital founder and chief executive Clark Perkins said ...

Government introduces company merger overhaul

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2024
... Australia's competition laws," Cass-Gottlieb said. The Business Council of Australia (BCA) praised the proposed reforms to company mergers as it strikes a balance between economic and regulatory needs. However, the BCA said close consultation will be ...

Morningstar warns of stretched valuations in Australian equities

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2024
... highlighted Perpetual as a top pick in the financial services sector, the research house said the market may be overlooking the company's potential for earnings growth from improved flows and cost reductions. "While Perpetual's investments business is ...

Qantas Super taps fintech as an investment consultant

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2024
Qantas Super has partnered with Ortec Finance, a fintech company headquartered in Rotterdam, as an investment performance consultant. The $8.9 billion corporate super fund will use Ortec's investment performance managed service via an outsourcing arrangement ...

Count completes Solutions Centric deal, reconsiders another

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2024
... effective on Friday, April 5. It first announced the deal on February 12, saying it paid $4.1 million for the SMSF services company which is Australian owned by run out of India. "The acquisition further expands Count's Services segment proposition to ...

Forager schedules LIT delisting

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2024
... listed investment trust (LIT) is set to delist on June 14, with trades suspending on June 10. Responsible entity, The Trust Company, said the move is in the best interests of unitholders. "The Responsible Entity considers that the fund would be more ...

Court delays DASS class action settlement approval

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2024
... complaints as well as the newly launched Compensation Scheme of Last Resort. Separately, E&P chief financial officer and joint company secretary Stephen Hill will leave the company on June 30. Hill began working at E&P on 2015 as group financial controller ...

JANA appoints new investment trusts leads

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2024
... She joins the investment trust team after serving as co-head of infrastructure research at JANA. Schnell, who joined the company in 2017, will transition from his position as senior investment consultant to head of diversified portfolios where he will ...