The cost and red tape involved in preparing to list a company on the Australian stock market can deter businesses from listing.
- Associate Professor of Finance, UNSW
What happens in the government bond market might seem far removed from everyday life, but it’s important to understand how it can affect us all.
Adjusted for inflation, Australians are being paid less than they were in 2020. These 4 charts show what’s changed in how we work – and the growing gap between your pay and what you can afford to buy.
Australian startup MilkRun may have attracted more than $85 million in venture capital but it always had a challenging business model.
We will not eradicate the gender pay gap using bad statistics. Here’s what we need to do instead.
Activist short selling is certainly controversial. But it’s not necessarily illegal nor unethical.
Software billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes failed to take over AGL, but he has succeeded in getting a friendlier board of directors.
With less than 14% of shares, Meta’s chairman and chief executive controls the majority of votes because of the tech company’s dual-class share structure.
Mike Cannon-Brookes has blocked AGL’s demerger – for now. But can he force it to accelerate the closure of its coal and gas-fired power stations?
To complete his deal, Elon Musk now needs the nod from a majority of Twitter’s shareholders and US corporate regulators.
The 1918 Spanish Flu, the 1957-1958 Asian Flu and the 2001-2002 SARS pandemic give us a frame of reference.
Westpac’s 154 page financial statement will be a challenge for shareholders attending Thursday’s annual general meeting. In the early 2000s, it was only 35 pages.
Myer misled the market, but the market didn’t believe it. The judgment provides a road map for future class actions.
The ACCC has inquired into mortgage rates before. This time will want detail.
Monday’s share market surge was a pure as any a test of what the market thought.
The push against brokers might be right in theory, wrong in practice.
Bank shares soared 4% to 7% after the royal commission report. That could be because it will do them little harm.
The share market jumped after Scott Morrison won the leadership, and for once the jump seems to mean something.
The Australian Banking Association says ‘nearly 80% of bank profits go straight back to shareholders’, the majority of whom are ‘everyday Australians’. Is that right?
ASX rules and other legislation state that companies must disclose any information that could affect the price or value of shares.
Despite some recent problems, there are many advantages to going public.
The private equity consortium bidding for Fairfax has experience in media - and it’s not all bad.
Following through on campaign promises to forcibly evict several million illegal immigrants, Trump has set in motion a plan to deport those with criminal records. But doing so won’t come cheap.
There’s a common theme in the rise of class actions against companies: CEOs have not been straight with investors, issuing falsely optimistic information or concealing negative information.
Investors in Snapchat’s upcoming initial public offering could find themselves without voting power. Research shows these kind of share structures end badly.
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