ASX Announcements
Notification of cessation of securities - IRE
Appendix 3H (Notification of cessation of securities)
- Jan 14, 2025
- 4 pages
Notification regarding unquoted securities - IRE
Appendix 3G (Notification of Issue, Conversion or Payment up of Unquoted Equity Securities)
- Jan 14, 2025
- 6 pages
November 2024
- Exclusive
- Office
Refresh at former Macquarie HQ gives new life to Barangaroo
A run of leasing deals in Sydney’s Barangaroo precinct has revived its fortunes, after a series of top corporate tenants left the waterfront precinct.
- Campbell Kwan
ESSSuper takes Iress to court claiming tax mistakes cost it members
The ASX-listed software firm allegedly gave the Australian Taxation Office the wrong information about its $37 billion superannuation fund client.
- Amelia McGuire
August 2024
- Results Wrap
- Chanticleer
Lendlease’s calm after the storm heads Monday’s results highlights
A few months is a long time for a CEO – just ask Lendlease, Suncorp or Ampol, businesses changing rapidly. Here is Chanticleer’s take on the day’s earnings calls.
- James Thomson and Anthony Macdonald
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Why Australian shares will get more expensive before they get cheaper
Two things can drive share prices: earnings, and how much investors are willing to pay for those earnings. Reporting season puts the focus on the latter.
- Anthony Macdonald
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Software darling shuns suitors to try its own private equity job
It is a big call to go it alone. Many would buckle when PE approaches because the turnaround is too hard – or they don’t want to pass up a quick buck.
- Anthony Macdonald
June 2024
These high flyers have money and status. This is what they did next
Meet the former high achieving, highly paid executives who, having had it all once, are determined to have it all again. But they are striving for different things.
- Sally Patten
Iress executive out of the door
Street Talk understands Giles’ departure was announced internally late last week, a year after Price added him to the $1.49 billion firm’s leadership lineup.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
May 2024
Hackers steal the keys to Iress’ OneVue platform
Financial software provider Iress is investigating if any client data has been breached after discovering hackers stole a credential to gain access to its systems.
- Tess Bennett
April 2024
UBS’s Sujit Dey cracks open history books on Iress’s M&A disclosures
Nearly 1½ months on from our story, Sujit Dey reckons Iress’s share price has given back the gains from the whiff of M&A – making the stock a red-hot buy.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
March 2024
Jarden votes through FirstCape, frees up cash for investment bank
Almost all the wealth manager’s shareholders agree to separate the firm and provide a much-needed liquidity event for its Australian business.
- Aaron Weinman
US PE giant Thoma Brava keeps tabs on Iress, Jarden on scene
Thoma Bravo, which has about $US134 billion ($206 billion) under management, has enlisted Jarden for advice on a potential tilt.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
February 2024
Iress says it has no knowledge of takeover interest
The financial software business has Goldman Sachs as its advisers if it ever catches another takeover bid.
- Tom Richardson
January 2024
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Why Australia’s biggest and oldest LIC defied the Ozempic sell-off
Australian Foundation Investment Company boss Mark Freeman says buying CSL and Resmed amid last year’s Ozempic rout was part of a tried-and-true strategy.
- James Thomson
September 2023
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
‘The gloves are off’: Investors turn against boards
Reporting season’s done, AGMs are coming, and fund managers are throwing their weight around behind closed doors. It’s popcorn time.
- Anthony Macdonald
August 2023
Iress plunges after halting dividends and lowering guidance
Shares in the financial software and data firm are down nearly 30 per cent after disappointing half-year results.
- Tess Bennett
July 2023
Link Group shares tumble as start-up rival snatches big client
The troubled ASX 200 fintech stock has lost a major superannuation contract to fast-growing administration player Grow Inc, causing its shares to drop.
- Jessica Sier
April 2023
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
This one ruthless step might just transform Iress
If CEO Marcus Price is successful in passing “the rule of 40” test, the group will be valued in the same way as high-flying software-as-a-service companies Xero and WiseTech.
- Updated
- Anthony Macdonald
March 2023
- Exclusive
- Mergers & acquisitions
Tech market struggles have M&A dealmakers ready to pounce
Dealmakers say private equity funds will be forced to resort to hostile tactics, or novel methods to get tech M&A deals done, as companies cling to inflated valuations.
- Yolanda Redrup
- Exclusive
- Fintech
$1trn fintech to unleash hybrid financial advice on Australia
Intelliflo has experimented with “robo-advice” but it expects to thrive in Australia by bringing in a hybrid model that incorporates humans.
- Aleks Vickovich
- Opinion
- Earnings season
The true winners and losers from reporting season
These companies showed the biggest improvement – or deterioration – relative to their peers.
- Elio D'Amato