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Iress completes sale of super business

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2025
... "Divesting the Superannuation business enhances our ability to focus on our high-quality core businesses of wealth and trading and market data where we see good opportunities for organic growth and higher returns for shareholders." The sale of the super ...

Allan Gray exposes 'hateful eight' bubble threat

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2025
... Passive, index investors are currently knowingly or unknowingly allocating a huge part of their exposure to banks, which are trading at eyewatering valuations. A purely passive approach may leave you exposed..." Mawhinney said. Allan Gray believes investors ...

Former director sentenced over 'test' trading accounts

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2025
... financial services director, who dishonestly obtained near $1 million by tricking his clients into investing into a "test" trading platform, has had his sentence handed down. Mark Francis McCabe was sentenced to four years and three months' imprisonment ...

J.P. MAM slashes recession probability to 30%

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2025
... multi-asset solutions international at J.P. MAM, said previously the effective net tariff rate for the US for all its trading partners averaged about 24%. "With the latest announcement, it's come down to about 13% to 14%. But that's still a big ...

Canadian Securities Exchange to acquire National Stock Exchange of Australia

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2025
... per partly paid ordinary share. The offer represents a 59% premium to NSX's closing share price on 16 May 2025, the last trading day before the announcement. NSX will continue to be operated by its local management team, but with CSE's support. "The ...

Super funds covet more global equities: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2025
... investment opportunities and better liquidity make the US appealing, offering super funds diverse opportunities, lower trading costs and, in certain sectors, less stretched valuations. In that vein, one could reasonably assume that mega-cap US tech would ...

ART extends exclusions in Socially Conscious option

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025
... production of steel - coal mined for internal power generation, intra-company sales of mined thermal coal, revenue from coal trading, or royalty income for companies not involved in thermal coal extraction operations. Likewise, the metallurgical coal ...

Mercer Super recruits whistleblower as risk chief

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2025
... which he penned as a young trader at NAB. During his time with the lender, he blew the whistle on a major foreign exchange trading scandal that saw four of his co-workers on the dealing desk go to prison. Motivated by this experience, he wrote a book ...

Macquarie reprimanded again for derivatives compliance failures

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2025
... OTC derivative transactions and two were futures dealing matters concerning the prevention and detection of suspicious trading activity. One related to withholding orders on the ASX24 market. Macquarie's controls failed to detect many of the OTC ...

What Labor's second term means for regulators

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2025
... several reforms hanging, such as the scams protection framework, Delivering Better Financial Outcomes 2 (DBFO) and unfair trading prohibition. The election also upended the highly anticipated public inquiry into the failures of Dixon Advisory, which ...