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Suncorp responds to shareholder resolution

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2019
... insurance for new, climate-wrecking thermal coal projects." The activist group is lodging a number of shareholder resolutions with ASX-listed companies including AGL, requesting they move away from fossil fuels.

ASIC clamps down on opaque active ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2019
The corporate regulator is set to ask ASX and Chi-X to stop admitting new active ETFs that use internal market making as it mulls a review, Financial Standard can reveal. ASIC has asked all market operators to not launch any new active ETFs with internal ...

IPOs fewer but performing well

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2019
Fewer companies sought to list on the ASX in the first half of the year but IPO investors were rewarded well on the listing day, according to HLB Mann Judd's biannual IPO report. Only 23 companies listed in the six months to June, raising $823 million. ...

Buy time ahead for Aussie equities: Tribeca

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2019
... heading into the reporting season even though the index just hit its post-GFC high, according to Tribeca's Jun Bei Liu. The S&P/ASX 200 has climbed more than 1200 points or about 20% since the start of the year. On Wednesday, it hit the highest since ...

Keybridge shareholder threatens board spill

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2019
... activist investor Tim Staermose and Primary Securities arranged a meeting for the unitholders of the Aurora Absolute Return Fund (ASX: ABW) in Canberra to vote on resolutions to remove Aurora as the responsible entity of the fund with Primary Securities.The ...

CommSec fixes faulty statements

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2019
... fix the identified issues over the coming months." Options give a buyer the right to purchase or sell a security, such as an ASX-listed share, at a set price until a set date, with a view to managing fluctuations in the security's price. There are ...

Mercer unveils best-performing Aussie equity funds

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2019
... placed fifth. According to equities lead specialist Mark Vrkic, median manager performance worsened in 2Q19 compared to the S&P/ASX 300 on a quarter-on-quarter basis. "Looking at a number of underperforming managers, this was largely due to the narrow ...

Paradice hires from Pengana

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2019
... fund since 2007. The Paradice Long Short Australian Equities Fund will invest in companies listed on or to be listed on the ASX and NZX. It will be managed by Troy Angus, David Moberley and Phillip Wensley. Paradice has over $15 billion in assets under ...

Platform provider divests advice firm

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2019
An ASX-listed platform provider has sold its 50% equity holding in a Queensland-based financial planning practice. Xplore Wealth has divested its holding in McGregor Wealth Management, signing an agreement to transfer its shareholding back to an entity ...

BetaShares launches FTSE 100 ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2019
... exchange-traded fund that will track the 100 largest UK companies traded on the London Stock Exchange. It started trading on the ASX this morning with the ticker code F100. The passive ETF will track the market cap weighted FTSE 100 Index. The management ...