Category: Financial Services

Pity any central bank governor trying to make sense of what Donald Trump’s tariffs mean for the world economy. Add in a fractious domestic election campaign where the cost of living forms…

The end is in sight for Top Shelf International’s long-suffering lender. Street Talk understands the ASX-listed distiller’s financier, Longreach Credit Investors, has fielded a range of offers for Top Shelf’s assets including…

UBS industrials analyst Lee Power pledged allegiance to the Swiss bank in 2021 after upstart Barrenjoey raided its ranks. Now, he’s calling time. Lee Power in a late 2021 photo at UBS,…

Dear big business, want to know what workplace issue the government is focused on? Wages, wages and more wages. Employment and Workplace Relations Minister Murray Watt couldn’t have made it any clearer…

Advising companies on what and when they must report to the ASX to meet their continuous disclosure obligations (and what they can get away with excluding) has kept Australia’s corporate lawyers happily…

Superannuation funds named as the worst offenders by the corporate regulator for not paying death benefits promptly to families of deceased members are also charging the highest administration fees. The analysis from…

Somehow, several law firms in the United States are actually contemplating suing James Hardie’s $14 billion target – New York-listed building materials group Azek – because the price is too low. That…

If a correction to a company’s ASX statement needs a correction itself because the original notice was not, in fact, incorrect, what does that say about the care and diligence of that…

Companies deal their way into problems all the time – then they try to deal their way out. The problem is, it rarely works. They buy something questionable, sell something solid often…

Rosyln Van Welie agrees something needs to be done about companies that try to stiff workers on superannuation contributions. But she says Labor’s plan to make employers pay super along with each…