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Packhorse lists cattle stations for sale

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2022
Packhorse Pastoral Company has listed a portfolio of three large stations for sale, following the passing of its co-founder Tom Strachan earlier this year. Strategically acquired over the past three years, the Queensland and New South Wales pastoral ...

BlackRock expands proxy voting to retail investors

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2022
BlackRock will allow individual investors in select mutual funds in the UK to engage in proxy voting via its technology platform Voting Choice. BlackRock chair and chief executive Larry Fink said it's clear investors don't want to sit on the ...

FPA membership declines, deficit materialises

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2022
The Financial Planning Association of Australia's (FPA) membership has fallen to 10,954 members from 11,811 last year, and the association has recorded a before-tax deficit of $1.2 million for the year ended June 30. FPA member numbers decreased ...

ASIC welcomes second ASX market resilience consultation

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2022
ASIC has welcomed the latest ASX industry consultation on improving market resilience, following the exchange's outage in November 2020. The consultation paper covers potential future ASX capabilities to enhance market resilience, with submissions to ...

Australia among top 10 financially inclusive markets: Research

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 27 OCT 2022
Australia has been ranked the seventh most financially inclusive market out of 42 around the globe. Principal Financial Group's Global Financial Inclusion Index, conducted by the Centre for Economics and Business Research, is built around three pillars ...

New ETF to invest in green metal producers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2022
Global X has launched the Global X Green Metals Miners ETF (GMTL), investing in companies producing metal for clean energy infrastructure and technologies. The ETF launch comes as significantly more green metals are required to produce, transmit and ...

Affordable housing in Budget spotlight

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2022
... between the government and industry funds has already commenced. Commenting on the Accord, CareSuper said it believes the initiative has the potential to address an economic and social imperative. "CareSuper members and our broader Australian community ...

Industry surveyed for Asia Region Funds Passport review

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2022
... another member economy. The ARFP went live in February 2019, almost three years after the member economies agreed to the initiative.

Cboe Global Markets, SBI Holdings sign MoU

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2022
Cboe Global Markets and SBI Holdings (SBI) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to discuss business collaboration opportunities in traditional and digital finance. "The MoU between Cboe and SBI lays the foundation for the potential exchange ...

Separation of ANZ P&I business completes

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2022
Several years in the making, Insignia Financial has finally completed the separation of the pensions and investments business, in a first of its kind move. This is the first time a superannuation business has been separated from a big four bank, with ...