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Active Super enhances parental leave policy

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 26 APR 2022
Employees of Active Super will now receive superannuation guarantee payments for up to 12 months while on parental leave, with the super fund also extending its paid entitlements. In an effort to help bridge the gender super gap, the industry fund will ...

Elon Musk buys Twitter for $61.4bn

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 26 APR 2022
... unlock it." Under the terms of the agreement, Twitter stockholders will receive US $54.20 in cash for each share of common stock that they own at the completion of the deal. The purchase price represented a 38% premium to Twitter's closing stock ...

US stocks crumble after Jerome Powell's hawkish comments

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 22 APR 2022
From its daily peak, the SP500 index fell 2.61% after Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell flagged aggressive rate hikes. At an International Monetary Fund panel discussion, Powell said: "It is appropriate, in my view, to be moving a little more quickly." ...

Jarden expands research team

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2022
The investment and advisory group has appointed Ben Lyons and Jon Bishop as co-heads of resources research as it readies a Perth office. Together, the pair have nearly 50 years of experience covering the Australian mining sector. Alongside Nik Burns ...

RBA eyes an early rate hike

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2022
... commented: "Given the economic uncertainty created by Russia's war against Ukraine, the COVID-19 pandemic and heightened stock market volatility, the central bank may choose to wait until June to raise interest rates." "Following that, bond markets ...

Stock picking dominant source of alpha: Research

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2022
Stock picking is the main source of alpha in about 90% of institutional portfolios, a research firm has found. Analysis of 752 equity mandates by Inalytics, including several managed on behalf of Australian institutions, found 88% of portfolios generated ...

AMP confirms sale talks with Dexus

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2022
... opportunities and will update the market as necessary. After the public acknowledgement of deal discussions, Dexus and AMP's stock had risen 0.46% and 0.47% respectively at 10:30am AEST.

Salaries soar but uncertainty remains: Recruiter

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2022
... occurring. "This is driven by many factors, for example, some employees have found the return to office work a catalyst to take stock of their lives and are consider a sea change," he said. "Others are seeing that their future earnings might be eroded ...

We're paying 30% more: Cboe

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2022
As Australia's disruptor stock exchange, formerly known as Chi-X, expands its team under Cboe's ownership, hiring in an extremely tight jobs market remains the largest challenge. Chi-X had 33 staff in its Sydney office when Cboe took over the ...

Legalsuper invests in innovation

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2022
... The strategy invests in mis-priced ASX-listed microcap stocks with a focus on underlying value, industry diversification, stock numbers and stage of development. The mandate is valued at $100 million. Sectors Acorn Capital currently invests in include ...