November 2023
State Street joins ASX ETF price war as peers race ahead
State Street has slashed management fees on its flagship ASX 200 fund as competitors outpace them on assets.
- Jonathan Shapiro
July 2022
Lake Resources scrambles to respond to short report
Lake Resources is preparing a response to research firm J Capital’s short report as its partner, Lilac, defends its lithium extraction technology.
- Jonathan Shapiro and Tom Richardson
June 2022
Shares slump to rare losing year
War, inflation and rising interest rates pushed Australia’s sharemarket to a financial-year loss for only the third time in the last ten years.
- Jonathan Shapiro
Lake Resources plunge exposes concerns about ASX 200 index
The sudden 55 per cent collapse in a week for much-hyped lithium player Lake Resources has raised questions about the market’s most followed benchmark.
- Jonathan Shapiro and Alex Gluyas
- Opinion
- Hedge funds
Lithium play tanks 50pc in comical entry into ASX 200
Lake Resources’ calamitous first week as a top 200 ASX company is yet another demonstration of retail hubris and institutional apathy.
- Jonathan Shapiro
January 2022
Unified BHP to reshape ASX200 in one session
The super-sizing of BHP within Australia’s flagship market indices will occur in a single trading session if the company’s structure is unified next week.
- Peter Ker
May 2020
Afterpay, travel recovery lift shares out of bear market
Australian shares have clawed back their losses to less than 20 per cent as Afterpay smashed through $50 and travel stocks roared back to life.
- Luke Housego and Vesna Poljak
April 2020
Nine ways to use ETFs to profit
How you use exchange traded funds depends on your view of what markets are likely to do and where you see opportunities.
- Tony Featherstone
March 2020
- Exclusive
- Coronavirus pandemic
The Australian investors thriving through the coronavirus crash
An elite group of professional investors is generating big returns from the global markets turmoil.
- Aaron Patrick
December 2019
The fund on track to beat 98pc of its peers
The ETF with a simple investment strategy of investing equally in Australia's largest companies is now tracking ahead of 98 per cent of its competitors over five years.
- Jonathan Shapiro
August 2019
- Opinion
- China
War footing on many fronts
Market sentiment turns more rapidly than political sentiment. The Australian stockmarket is just another casualty of US-China rivalry. What's next?
- Jennifer Hewett
June 2013
- Opinion
- Opinion
STW, seen as undervalued, is raised to a ‘buy’
Bell Potter upgraded STW Group to ‘buy’ saying it was undervalued at a time when its hard-won market gains, resilient business model and a slate of potential acquisitions herald attractive growth prospects.
- Sarah Thompson, Anthony Macdonald and Gretchen Friemann
October 2010
Are these funds becoming too clever?
Exchange-traded funds are becoming more sophisticated as their popularity grows – potentially setting up investors for a fall, notes the Bank of England.
- Updated
- Chris Wright
August 2007
Big changes for STW agencies
STW Communications Group has painted a bleak outlook for its core advertising agency division, predicting its earnings would fall 10 per cent this year.
- Neil Shoebridge
April 2007
STW may be left with one last suitor
Clemenger Communications, Photon Group and Mitchell & Partners have ruled out merging or setting up a joint venture with John Singleton's sprawling marketing services firm, STW Communications Group.
- Neil Shoebridge
September 2005
$61m raising haul to fund STW's buy-out spree
John Singleton's STW Communications Group will use the $61 million it raised on Tuesday to reduce debt and accelerate the buy-out of minority partners in some of the companies in which it has invested in recent years.
- Neil Shoebridge
May 2005
Equities versus bonds it's all relative
Regular readers of Market Wrap will no doubt be aware that the stockmarket appears relatively "cheap".
- David Bassanese
November 2004
Seminars seek to revive ETF interest
Exchange traded funds started in Australia with a burst of publicity but then fell from view. Now, the Australian Stock Exchange and the major players in the field are looking to revive interest among investors.
- Barrie Dunstan
May 2004
Singo's biggest punt
Adman John Singleton is gambling on becoming Australia's next media tycoon.
- By James Kirby