29 October 2025

Breathing life into the moribund Australian IPO market


GILES RAFFERTY, Corporate Communications and Media Advisor ASIC’s approval of alternative Australian stock exchange, Cboe’s, listing application creates a significant rival to ASX for new listings. ASIC claims the approval will give investors access to more initial public offerings (IPOs), dual listed foreign entities and promote a vibrant and attractive local listing market. Cboe was formed […]

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29 October 2025

Progress towards Enhanced Beneficial Ownership Reporting


VICTORIA GEDDES, Executive Director The Federal Government recently released Schedule 1 of the Treasury Laws Amendment (Strengthening Financial Systems and Other Measures) Bill 2025. This specifically addresses the level of information companies can receive about substantial shareholders in their company as well as expanding their powers to include equity derivatives in beneficial ownership tracing notices. […]

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25 September 2025

Australian Activism vs the World


VICTORIA GEDDES, Executive Director Up until 2022, Canada and Australia regularly traded places to claim the mantle as the country, second only to the US, with the most activist campaigns. However, post Covid, Asia discovered activism with Japan in particular rocketing ahead, followed closely by South Korea. Both Canada and South Korea have been moving […]

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28 August 2025

AI – making it up as it goes along


GILES RAFFERTY, Corporate Communications and Media Advisor ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’ is the title of a dystopian science fiction novel by Philip K Dick published in 1967. Fast forward to 2025 and we discover that Ai Chatbots are prone to bouts of ‘hallucination’. IBM says Ai hallucinations are when a chatbot perceives patterns […]

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28 August 2025

Trends in Australian Activism


VICTORIA GEDDES, Executive Director Activism in Australia is highly concentrated by sector, market cap and demand type. It is focused on the basic materials sector, in nano cap stocks and with two-thirds of demands being for changes to the board. This is highly unusual in a global context where activity is more evenly spread across […]

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