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ASIC takes Block Earner case to High Court

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2025
ASIC intends to appeal the Full Federal Court's decision, now seeking special leave from the High Court in its case against Block Earner. The Federal Court decision found that a product issued by Block Earner, which allowed consumers to earn fixed ...

Managed funds should be 'prepared to take less'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2025
... performance of the product when there are plenty of alternatives available. "Active management is not dead. There is absolutely a case for active management, and the active manager will always be around. We run active funds as well. It's not just ...

Stockbroking faces 'perception problem'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2025
... the fire. That there is something that we need to take a look at, but the first thing to really understand is the business case," Inns said. "We know from a number of reports that in Western economies women are going to be controlling more wealth than ...

Scrutiny, costs major hurdles to boosting IPOs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2025
Increased scrutiny and costs are just some of the challenges facing listed companies and forcing private companies to stay private for longer. According to Australasian Investor Relations Association chief executive Ian Matheson, there are four main ...

Vanguard Super leads in organic growth: KPMG

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2025
Vanguard Super was the super fund with the highest organic growth rate in FY24, both in terms of assets under management (AUM) and membership, according to a KPMG report. CareSuper technically had the highest growth in AUM and membership, though this ...

Tariffs were never the answer: Experts

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2025
... labelling Liberation Day "an act of economic self-harm by the US." "Tariffs are self-destructive... it was never going to be the case that the tariff rates announced that day, or the three-digit tariff rates announced on China, were ever going to stick. ...

RBA cut expected, but then what?

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2025
... simply by not providing any forward guidance," Aird said. "We continue to look for an end year cash rate of 3.35% and our base case has the RBA cutting the cash rate by 25bp in May, August and November." Aird said the current state of the global economy ...

Former adviser accused of theft loses lengthy extradition fight

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2025
... given the previous outcomes of appeals, it did not believe this appeal had enough chance of success to warrant hearing her case. According to a LinkedIn profile, Pearson has been working as managing director of a family-owned cleaning supplies business ...

Inside Colonial First State's fund manager selection overhaul

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2025
... the manager to look at their holdings and performance to ask: 'Is this a differentiator to an incumbent' or, in the case where there are similarities to an existing manager, 'Is something differentiated or special about it relative to an ...

Analyst promotions: Frontier, Fidelity, ART

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2025
Frontier Advisors has announced the appointment of Jacqueline Darwis as an associate in the firm's real assets team. Darwis brings research and consulting experience in the property sector and joins Frontier from PPC Urban, where she carried out ...