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Dimitri Burshtein

January

ASX CEO Helen Lofthouse: this once globally admired exchange operator is spending $700 million to upgrade its CHESS system, a system that originally cost $44 million.

ASX Limited fiddles with DEI while market shrinks

Something is rotten at the bourse’s headquarters with senior leadership in distraction and denial.

October 2024

The ASX and ASIC have made a synchronised effort to drive away capital and investors.

A narrow window to change the fortunes of the ASX

The cost and regulatory burden of a public listing is driving companies and investors into the arms of private capital. The ASX needs to fix itself.

September 2024

Chalmers’ economic strategy appears to be analogous to slapping a coat of paint over obvious cracks and mould.

Unlike the original Dr Jim C, Chalmers has no excuse

Failing to learn from past policy mistakes is far, far worse than making them in the first place.

June 2024

Red tape driving shift from public markets to private equity

While the downward trajectory of listed company numbers is a global phenomenon, changes to governance principles have exacerbated this decline here.

September 2023

Future Fund chairman Peter Costello.

Liquidate the Future Fund and pay down the debt

It would reduce risk to taxpayers in a higher inflation world and remove the “pea and thimble” public finance distortions and opportunities cost of the wealth manager.

Original URL: https://www.afr.com/by/dimitri-burshtein-p53715