ASX Announcements
Notice Pursuant to Corporations Act Sub-section 259C(2) Exem
Issued Capital - Other
- Jan 17, 2025
- 8 pages
Notification of cessation of securities - AMP
Appendix 3H (Notification of cessation of securities)
- Jan 15, 2025
- 4 pages
Notification regarding unquoted securities - AMP
Appendix 3G (Notification of Issue, Conversion or Payment up of Unquoted Equity Securities)
- Jan 15, 2025
- 5 pages
This Month
Big super to keep pushing companies on climate
New climate disclosure laws mean even retail super funds will engage with companies on climate this year. Poor workplace safety and governance is also a concern.
- Hannah Wootton
‘Don’t be a hero’: why investors should stick to buying winners
MST has urged clients to resist snapping up last year’s worst performing ASX stocks as value seekers sift through the rubble in the hope of finding a comeback kid.
- Alex Gluyas
Top super investors dash pre-election rate cut hopes
But they say investors should be optimistic about inflation easing despite later cuts and risks associated with Donald Trump taking the White House.
- Hannah Wootton
The most important lessons these CEOs learnt in 2024
Celebrating your wins, staying grounded and embracing generative AI were some of the key things these top business leaders took away from last year.
- Euan Black and Sally Patten
Where big super investors are hunting for returns in 2025
The investment bosses of the $4.1 trillion sector say US stocks will keep driving returns, but standout sharemarket performances will likely temper.
- Hannah Wootton
December 2024
Bitcoin has ‘no role’ in retirement portfolios: Vanguard
The asset manager has blasted bitcoin as having “no appropriate role” in long-term investment portfolios, but the peak superannuation body says more funds will inevitably follow AMP into cryptocurrency.
- Lucy Dean
This big super fund just became the first to buy into crypto
AMP says the $27 million it is investing in bitcoin is part of its diversification strategy. Critics say the asset class has no place in retirement portfolios.
- Michelle Bowes
November 2024
Economists abandon hopes of RBA cutting rates in February
Economists at AMP, ANZ and Bank of Queensland have joined a chorus of forecasters expecting rate cuts no sooner than May.
- Alex Gluyas and Joshua Peach
Rise in underlying inflation to keep rates pressure on RBA
Trimmed mean inflation increased to 3.5 per cent in October from 3.2 per cent in September, even as headline inflation remained unchanged at 2.1 per cent.
- Updated
- Michael Read
Private equity closes in on a 50pc stake in $2b-plus Opal HealthCare
Pacific Equity Partners has gained exclusivity over the holding, which was put up for sale in July by its owners including Singapore’s GK Goh Holdings.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
October 2024
AMP eyes February for long-planned expansion into business banking
The company, which already has a major mortgage loan book, will target start-ups and sole traders as it attempts to find higher margins.
- James Eyers
- Analysis
- Inside China
China’s new stimulus underwhelms as ‘big fat’ numbers missing
Chances of China rolling out a massive stimulus package to boost its faltering economy are fading after Saturday’s announcement failed to reveal details.
- Jessica Sier
September 2024
PEP bankers up for aged care giant Opal HealthCare; lobs bid
Pacific Equity Partners’ secure assets team has put in a non-binding indicative offer for the $200 million-a-year business.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
August 2024
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
What I learnt from 30 CEOs in 30 days
The profit season has delivered a confusing picture of an economy stuck between cycles. Here are 30 nuggets to help investors navigate this tricky environment.
- Updated
- James Thomson
The super funds failing to perform
For the first time, all default MySuper options passed the APRA performance test, but big retail funds continue to underperform.
- Michelle Bowes and Hannah Wootton
The directors under 50 making their mark on top ASX boards
BOSS talks to five directors under the age of 50 about their careers and the experience they bring to the boards on which they serve.
- Sally Patten
AMP cuts financial advice deal, stemming losses
The company will partially sell that business via transactions totalling $92.4 million, while the stock lifted 13 per cent after interim profit beat consensus.
- Hannah Wootton
July 2024
No rate cuts and maybe a rise as inflation sticks, super funds warn
The investment chiefs of the country’s biggest funds also have a bleak outlook for Aussie shares over the next year, after global equities drove double-digit returns in FY23.
- Hannah Wootton
Super fund savings will ride out ‘year of elections’: CIOs
But investment chiefs warn that the rise of populism or an increase in US-China tensions could flow through to short-term returns.
- Hannah Wootton
- Opinion
- Superannuation
Don’t switch super funds until reckoning in unlisted assets is over
Industry fund executives regularly boasted about capitalising on the so-called “illiquidity premium”, but the world has changed.
- Joanna Mather