25 September 2025

Australian Activism vs the World

Victoria Geddes
Activism, All, IR

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
All, media relations

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
Activism, All, ESG

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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31 July 2025

ASX fires warning shots ahead of reporting season

Giles Rafferty
All, ASX Listing, compliance, Disclosure, Reporting

GILES RAFFERTY, Corporate Communication and Media Advisor The ASX is continuing its focus on market sensitive earnings surprises during the August 2025 reporting season and has called out ASX 200 companies as being of particular interest. In broad terms an earnings surprise occurs when the price of listed entities securities moves by 10% or more, […]

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29 July 2025

How concerned is Australia about ESG really?

Victoria Geddes
Activism, All, compliance, ESG, Reporting

VICTORIA GEDDES, Executive Director. Australia’s experience of challenging companies about ESG issues, when compared to the rest of the world, has always been that of the late or slow adopter. Since 2013 when it wasn’t on the radar at all, activity has picked up every year, peaking in 2022 at 28% and briefly catching up […]

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