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ASIC enforces licence conditions on ASX

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2021
The corporate regulator concluded its investigation of the ASX market outage and imposed conditions to mitigate risks for future upgrades. Conditions have been imposed on the market licence of ASX Limited, and the clearing and facility licence of ASX ...

APRA questions trustees on financial resilience

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2021
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has issued a discussion paper seeking information from superannuation trustees on their plans to maintain the financial resilience needed to protect members' best financial interests. APRA's prudential ...

MetLife upgrades adviser platform

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2021
MetLife Australia unveiled a new digital platform for financial advisers to cater to regulatory and product changes that took effect this month. Key product changes follow APRA's reforms to income protection which kicked off in October. The platform ...

Lending curbs to impact housing market

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2021
The Reserve Bank of Australia has suggested it may shift policy to cool the property market in 2022, likely to result in homebuyers being able to borrow less. BuyersBuyers co-founder Pete Wargent said that this time around the rules will mostly impact ...

AustralianSuper ups stake in WestConnex

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 20 SEP 2021
The $233 billion superannuation fund's stake in WestConnex rose to 20.5% after the consortium it's a part of took full ownership of the motorway. The Sydney Transport Partners (STP) consortium purchased the remaining 49% interest or $11.1 billion ...

CIMIC wins $1.18bn infra upgrade contract

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2021
CIMIC and Downer's joint venture CPB Contractors has won the New South Wales government's contract to upgrade the Warringah Freeway. CIMIC said the contract has a total value of $1.18 billion and will generate about $800 million in revenue for CPB Contractors. ...

Fortius, PGIM make $214m property acquisition

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2021
... performance - but the size and shape of these spaces needs to evolve." 307 Queen Street recently underwent a $5 million upgrade to its lobby and retail areas, enhancing its appeal to tenants and visitors, and achieved a five Star NABERS energy and 5.5-star ...

NSX partners with retail platform

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2021
The National Stock Exchange is partnering with online retail broking platform Marketech, to give smaller companies access to capital. The partnership aims to improve liquidity for emerging Australian companies and allowing active traders to have real ...

Alphinity launches new fund

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2021
... Alphinity's investment philosophy and process to ensure they are quality undervalued companies in or entering an earnings upgrade cycle and are therefore candidates for our portfolio," Thomson said.

Good year for active managers in fixed income

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUL 2021
Good year for active managers in fixed income Kanika Sood Active fixed income managers outperformed their indexed peers in COVID-19, according to Zenith's review of the universe. In the 12 months to April end, the Bloomberg Ausbond Composite Index (0+years) ...