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Corruption, governance risks: The cost of doing business in emerging markets?

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2026
Beyond a governance issue, corruption is a major deterrence to capital flows, undermines long-term development and carries crippling social costs. Seasoned investors, though, are quick to challenge the notion that corruption and governance risks are ...

ASX to focus on pattern of problematic behaviour in listed entities

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2026
ASX has told listed companies it intends to focus on repeated conduct to ramp up a company's share price through inappropriate use of the market announcements platform. In its Listed Entity Supervision Report 2026, ASX noted over the last 18 to 24 months ...

Sovereign wealth funds ramp up direct private investments

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2026
... Direct access gives SWFs tighter control over capital deployment, reduces fee leakage, and allows funds to retain a larger share of the value they help create," the report read. PE is the largest private allocation at 50%, followed by infrastructure ...

Pendal shutters Global Select Fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2026
Only five years after it debuted, Pendal has terminated its Global Select Fund, an actively managed international equity strategy. Due to the fund's relatively small size, as well as ongoing running costs being a higher proportion of total assets, Pendal ...

IFM builds Atlas Arteria stake to majority

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2026
... now acquired further shares today, taking its direct stake in the toll-road operator to 50.1%. This takes IFM's total share in Atlas Arteria to 52.3%, which includes a further 1.3% held on behalf of its clients. In the meantime, Atlas Arteria flagged ...

Diversa drags Praemium into First Guardian lawsuit

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2026
Praemium and its subsidiaries are now caught up in the ASIC-led First Guardian legal saga, having been thrown in the mix by Diversa Trustees. Praemium this morning announced, together with Powerwrap and One Vue Wealth Services (OVWS), it received notices ...

MySuper assets pursue $1.5tn Choice sector

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2026
... their savings is sitting in cash accounts, while $11.33 billion is in term deposits. Just over $24 billion is in direct share holdings and $201 million is in fixed income. MySuper investment allocations, meanwhile, have more than 50% in listed equities ...

Equity Trustees opts out of super trustee business

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2026
Equity Trustees has decided to exit from its super trusteeship business via its subsidiary Equity Trustees Superannuation Limited (ETSL), after facing continued scrutiny over the Shield and First Guardian collapses. Equity Trustees commenced a strategic ...

Start-ups, small businesses win CGT reform carveouts

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2026
... innovative activity." The concession will apply to founders, early-stage investors and employees who hold shares through employee share schemes and share option plans. Shareholders would have the choice to calculate their CGT liability using the 50% ...

ASX puts 25% cap on new share issuances during mergers

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2026
... Skene said: "We have listened to the market and have heard loud and clear the market's support for more protections against share dilution in public takeovers and mergers." He noted submissions also consistently said shareholders should have a vote on ...