ASX Announcements
Dividend Record Date, Dividend Pay Date, Dividend Rate, Dividend Reinvestment Plan
- Jan 30, 2025
- 5 pages
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Appendix 4D and 2024 Half Year Results
Half Yearly Report, Half Year Audit Review, Half Year Directors' Statement, Half Year Accounts, Half Year Directors' Report, Dividend Record Date, Dividend Pay Date, Dividend Rate, Dividend Reinvestment Plan
- Jan 30, 2025
- 29 pages
October 2024
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Why investment legend Chris Mackay says ‘it’s a dangerous time’
The MFF Capital Investments boss and Magellan co-founder says the “everything rally” is likely to reverse, but calm, long-term investors can fight through the noise.
- James Thomson
Chris Mackay buys Montaka, outlines Magellan-like vision
The Magellan Financial Group’s co-founder is roping a new manager into his $2 billion investment vehicle and his expectations are high.
- Joshua Peach
March 2024
Saba Capital widens out Aussie hit list, disclosures show
Saba is sitting on stakes in Chris Mackay’s $2 billion MFF Investments, the circa $392 million Platinum Capital and Geoff Wilson’s $769 million WAM Global.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
February 2022
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Magellan is reeling and the pain’s not over
In eight weeks Magellan has lost its CEO, $23 billion of funds under management and now its talisman, Hamish Douglass. Will a ‘reset’ turn things around?
- James Thomson
June 2020
Magellan co-founder Mackay turns ultra-bearish
The $1.6 billion fund manager Chris Mackay sold almost half his holdings in the first half of year, saying there was way too much optimism the economic fallout from coronavirus.
- Tom Richardson
November 2019
The big discount danger of LICs
If $1 of assets is available for 80¢ in a listed investment company, is it a massive buying opportunity or a sign that times have changed?
- Tony Featherstone
October 2018
MFF manager Chris Mackay warns of elevated market risks
Fund manager Chris Mackay has found exactly "zero" opportunities in the market that he would call "compelling", and is not ready to sell his juiciest winners.
- Updated
- Vesna Poljak
October 2017
Chris Mackay's MFF Capital is obsessed with the Amazon effect
Chris Mackay reports to his board at every meeting on the Amazon effect, even though the $1 billion global equities fund does not own the stock.
- Updated
- Vesna Poljak
August 2017
Magellan duo move a little further apart
As Magellan prepares to raise a new multibillion-dollar investment trust, it has become clear how separately its co-founders now choose to work.
- Updated
- Jemima Whyte
July 2017
Law of diminishing returns: Magellan and Cricket Australia
How can an institutional investor generate any meaningful return on investment from a mass-market sponsorship property?
- Updated
- Joe Aston
Magellan Financial Group readies for super-sized listed fund
Magellan Financial Group will mandate more brokers in coming weeks for its latest listed fund, in what is expected to be the largest capital raise for a listed investment company to date.
- Updated
- Jemima Whyte, Anthony Macdonald and Sarah Thompson
March 2017
Magellan's Hamish Douglass: Technology will Trump uncertainty
Hamish Douglass stays true to technology theme in the face of upheaval in US policy.
- Updated
- James Frost
October 2016
MFF boss Chris Mackay backs Wells Fargo response to sales scandal
The fund manager is "quietly positive" about how Wells Fargo is atoning for the opening of about 2 million fake accounts.
- Updated
- Vesna Poljak
February 2016
Magellan's Hamish Douglass: Beware the risk in defensive assets
Investors rushing into so called "defensive" assets could be walking into a bubble and putting their money at risk, Magellan CEO Hamish Douglass said.
- Updated
- Matthew Smith
January 2016
More global LICs needed to satisfy investor demand in 2016
Listed investment companies may launch more global funds this new year as jittery investors ramp up demand for international exposure.
- Updated
- Ruth Liew
October 2015
Why Magellan's Nikki Thomas has China on her mind
Magellan Group's head of research Nikki Thomas is spending a lot of time thinking about the world's fastest-growing economy.
- Updated
- Matthew Smith
May 2011
Finance briefs
Australia and New Zealand Banking Group’s fully franked 2011 interim dividend of 64¢ a share will be paid on July 1 to shareholders registered on May 18.
- Vesna Poljak
January 2011
Financial services briefs
Challenger Financial Group has elevated Richard Willis and Blair Beaton to the senior leadership team led by chief executive Dominic Stevens. Mr Willis will become chief risk officer and Mr Beaton, the head of strategy, will maintain his title but report directly to Mr Stevens. Paul Rogan will become CEO for distribution, product and marketing, and Rob Woods will become the sole head of funds management after joint CEO Rob Adams resigned.
- Updated
September 2010
Financial services briefs
ANZ Banking Group appointed Ivan Colhoun as head of Australian economics including property and capital markets research.
July 2010
Expectations need trimming
A deleveraging economy will likely derail the recent strength in asset price growth, Sally Patten writes.
- Updated
- Sally Patten