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February rate cut unlikely after inflation data

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JAN 2025
... continuing to demonstrate spending power, based on the strong retail sales in November and December. Record breaking Black Friday sales, which are expected to be up by 2.7% on last year's sales figures, were quickly followed by record Boxing Day ...

Traders left scrambling over ASX settlement outage

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 23 DEC 2024
... disrupted two days' worth of trades. The ASX said it detected a "technical issue" on its CHESS Batch Settlement last Friday, forcing trade settlements on December 18 and 19 to be processed today. The ASX has since announced that clearing and settlements ...

HPI rethinks Hostplus, Charter Hall takeover

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 23 DEC 2024
... Property Investments (HPI) is now asking unitholders to accept the $3.785 per share bid. HPI's about-face announced last Friday is based on two recent developments. The first being the bidders gaining a substantial take in the REIT of 52.38% as of ...

ISPT joins IFM Investors

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2024
... Chris Chapple, to take on a new leadership role. The two businesses, following a Scheme of Arrangement, came together last Friday. The deal was finalised after IFM Investors put forward a binding offer of transaction terms in August, which was endorsed ...

Cbus lacks stringent director, expenditure policies: Deloitte

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2024
... of Cbus, the fitness and propriety of its board directors, and its expenditure management processes. Having confirmed on Friday that APRA had received the resulting report, Cbus released Deloitte's findings to the public yesterday. In all, Deloitte ...

'New class of advisers' need clear-cut distinction: FAAA

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2024
... legislation [for Tranche 2] imminently. I'll certainly be asking Minister Jones, [who will address the Congress] on Friday for a specific date."

Chalmers teases superannuation update

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2024
... I - later in the week around superannuation and the retirement phase, we will be hosting another investor roundtable on Friday focused on housing and the energy transformation and other matters." While Chalmers did not elaborate on the upcoming superannuation ...

ANZ suspected of more mistakes amid bond saga

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2024
... investigation, commenced April last year, is currently ongoing. Appearing before the Parliamentary Joint Committee last Friday, ASIC chair Joe Longo said: "Our investigation concerns suspected market manipulation and contraventions of a number of provisions ...

Cbus' CFMEU board directors exit

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2024
... against him, but was ultimately removed by CFMEU administrator Mark Irving KC. The CFMEU was placed into administration last Friday after the attorney-general Mark Dreyfus said it was in the public interest. A Cbus spokesperson told Financial Standard ...

Former Brisbane adviser found guilty of fraud again

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2024
... Financial Group (in liquidation), Ben Jayaweera, was found guilty of 28 counts of fraud in a retrial that wrapped up on Friday. He had initially been sentenced to 12 years in jail on six charges in relation to 28 transactions in 2019 but was granted ...