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Responsible investment sector hits $1.2tn

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2021
... responsible investment funds either performed in line the Australia Fund Equity Large Blend benchmark but underperformed the S&P/ASX 300 in 2020 for the three- and five-year time horizons. The report noted that one possible explanation is "companies ...

Binance Australia appoints chief executive

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2021
... Australia. Leigh Travers, former DigitalX chief executive and director, has joined Binance in the lead role. DigitalX is an ASX listed blockchain technology company, where Travers had a seven-year career. "I've long been an advocate of the benefits that ...

Equal Pay Day offers sobering reminder

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2021
... gender pay gap." Recently, research from the University of South Australia showed a significant gender pay gap across 539 ASX-listed Australian firms - with 80% of them paying female executives 30-35% less than their male counterparts. The research found ...

Buy-sell spreads higher for active and diversified ETFs: Rainmaker

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 30 AUG 2021
Active ETFs and diversified ETFs have the highest buy-sell spreads among ASX-listed ETFs, according to Rainmaker analysis. Across the ASX-listed ETFs, the median buy-sell spread is 17 bps. However, the actual spread varies vastly by types of ETFs. The ...

Mainstream revenue up 18%

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2021
ASX-listed Mainstream reported $65.6 million in revenue for FY21, up 18% from the previous financial year. The firm said all revenue growth was organic and driven by demand in Australia, Asia and the United States. Operating EBITDA rose 27% to $20.4 ...

ASX 100 missing key reporting metric: ACCR

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2021
A new report from the Australian Centre for Corporate Responsibility has raised serious governance concerns with ASX 100 companies in relation to contractors. ACCR found that Australian listed companies remain opaque about their labour hire, contracting ...

CountPlus profit plummets

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2021
The ASX-listed advice and accounting group recorded a 59% drop in net profit to $7.1 million as grandfathered commissions came to a halt and COVID-19 impacted the business. Regulatory reform, namely the FASEA exam, also impacted the business however ...

No all-male boards in ASX 200

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2021
... directors to their boards this month. When the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) started tracking women on ASX 200 boards in 2015, there were 28 companies with all-male board lineups. AICD chief executive and managing director Angus Armour ...

The next 20 years in Aussie ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2021
... they pushed down the costs for investor. For example, BetaShares' A200 which sparked a flurry of fee cuts in equivalent ASX 200 exposures from the bigger names. But in many cases, success has been hard to achieve for some issuers, including big names ...

ClearView offloads advice unit

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2021
ClearView is divesting its financial advice business for $15.2 million to another ASX-listed firm. Centrepoint Alliance will acquire ClearView subsidiaries ClearView Financial Advice (CFA), Matrix Planning Solutions and LaVista Licensee Solutions. The ...