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Cash rate hits 4.1%

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2023
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has hiked rates by another 25 basis points to bring the official cash rate to 4.1%. Many experts fear that Australia is teetering on the edge of a recession and that the latest decision by the nation's central bank ...

Cboe launches first ever global listing network

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2023
Cboe Global Markets has launched a global listing network facilitating access to capital and secondary liquidity for companies and ETFs. The derivatives and exchange network said Cboe Global Listings is "the first-of-its-kind," and has plans to launch ...

ASX lays out five-year plan to restore trust

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2023
The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) is confident that it can restore stakeholders' trust and get its fundamentals and governance right as it lays out a five-year plan to rectify ongoing issues. ASX managing director and chief executive Helen ...

AI in ESG: Risk or opportunity?

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2023
The artificial intelligence (AI) revolution is already rapidly disrupting various industries, speeding up processes and making fast work of huge amounts of data, and investors and businesses need to analyse the material ESG risks and opportunities of ...

Vanguard fined for defective account statements

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2023
A US regulator has slapped Vanguard with a fine for issuing false and inaccurate account statements to 8.5 million US customers. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) found that the fund manager overstated the yield and projected annual ...

ASIC issues first-of-its-kind stop order

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2023
Mitrade Global has been hit with the first stop order to be issued under the design and distribution obligations' (DDO) failure to take reasonable steps provision, with the order relating to its distribution of contracts for difference (CFD). The stop ...

The Australian small-cap conundrum: VanEck

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2023
Australian investors have traditionally been attracted to Australian small caps, yet locally, the asset class has consistently underperformed when compared to its global counterpart. A new research paper released by VanEck titled Global small-caps ...

Heatmaps drive efficiencies, more consolidation: Cole

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2023
Speaking at a standing committee this morning, deputy chair Margaret Cole noted that the heatmaps and performance tests have created a more efficient and transparent superannuation system that will ultimately drive more consolidation. While that might ...

Spaceship told to cease super, funds distribution

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2023
Spaceship is the first superannuation fund to be slapped with stop orders, which have also been applied to its Voyager Funds series. The orders apply to the Spaceship Earth Portfolio, Spaceship Origin Portfolio, Spaceship Universe Portfolio, and Spaceship ...

Family offices ignoring $3.5tn time bomb: KPMG

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2023
Echoing similar findings by UBS, KPMG has found that of the estimated 70% of Australian businesses that are family-run, only 30% have an established succession plan. This comes into focus with a $3.5 trillion intergenerational wealth transfer expected ...