November
Investors need to know when to put down the phone
Smartphone alerts can promote what behaviourists call “overtrading”, shredding your returns – and your nerves.
- Jonathan Guthrie
Bitcoin bursts past $US94,000 for the first time
The cryptocurrency was turbocharged by news that Donald Trump’s company was in talks to buy a digital token trading firm.
- Medha Singh and Ankur Banerjee
- Exclusive
- Bell Financial
Betashares’ no-fee broking ignites intense competition for investors
The start of free transactions for the first time in Australia comes as Bell Financial snaps up popular low-cost platform Selfwealth for $51 million.
- Jemima Whyte
July
- Opinion
- Bonds
Markets owe it to themselves to fill in the black holes
Questions are being asked over bond market trading because market players no longer feel the incentive to police their own reputations among their own number.
- Les Hosking
- Exclusive
- Investment banking
Jarden pitches a new service for big emitters: carbon trading
The investment bank’s new carbon trading platform will complement an energy transition advisory team led by Matt Kean’s former chief of staff.
- Aaron Weinman
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Small caps’ wild EOFY ride exposes market’s dirty little secret
Monday’s list of worst performers looked like Friday’s best performers turned upside down. It was laughable.
- Anthony Macdonald
June
How to feed super funds Australian shares while they’re hungry
It’s good to see someone think about the huge and growing pile of Australian superannuation money, and the need to give funds more ways to invest in public Australian equities.
- Anthony Macdonald
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Bitcoin on the ASX opens investors to a world of pumpers and spruikers
But Binance’s regional boss Vishal Sacheendran is making a surprise call – in an interview, he says there needs to be more regulation, not less.
- Anthony Macdonald
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Digital world wants, real world needs: Chook’s next 50 years
The battle for physical world assets shifts to those things that will underpin the digital world in the next 50 years. It will be a bigger battle, and Chanticleer will be there to cover it.
- Anthony Macdonald
Dogs of the ASX in for a hard time
In case a softening economy, Nvidia rally and consumer pain didn’t make it hard enough to make money, attention has turned to tax loss selling. There are plenty of candidates this year.
- Anthony Macdonald
May
Openmarkets test drives bid for Integrated Portfolio Solutions
The 14-year-old investment administration platform was put up for sale via Berkshire Global Advisors late last year.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
April
$2 trades: Superhero opens a new front in the broker fee war
Street Talk can reveal the online share trading platform will on Monday announce the most significant changes to its pricing since its launch in 2020.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
March
- Exclusive
- Top 500 private companies
Equity traps in the growing pool of share schemes
Anna Ross crowdfunded capital to get her beauty empire off the ground, but some small-time investors have become desperate to get their money back.
- Patrick Durkin
February
CommSec MD Richard Burns quits, CBA exec James Fowle to takeover
The managing director of the country’s largest stockbroker, Commonwealth Bank’s CommSec platform, has told the company that he will resign at the end of June.
- Lucas Baird
C’est bizarre: CSR share trading post French approach raises eyebrows
CSR’s trading halt came through after the market had closed for the day, rendering it largely useless.
- Updated
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
O’Kane who? Make way for Citadel’s $1.5b man
On a global stage, Macquarie’s $58 million man Nicholas O’Kane is the poor cousin to Citadel’s Sebastian Barrack.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
January
Retail traders are retreating from the ASX
Brokers have been tracking the force of retail traders since they burst onto the scene during the pandemic. But their impact appears to be waning.
- Updated
- Jonathan Shapiro
- Exclusive
- Start-ups
Stake CEO Matt Leibowitz resigns
Matt Leibowitz, co-founder of online broker Stake, has resigned as chief executive after a seven-year tenure.
- Jessica Sier
- Updated
- Bitcoin
Bitcoin ETFs line up for ASX listing
The SEC’s final approval signals the arrival of cryptocurrency as a mainstream asset class that can be recommended by financial advisers, industry observers said.
- Updated
- Jessica Sier, James Eyers and Joanna Mather
November 2023
Investment banks feast on $1b of block trades as floats loom
Brokers compiled a slew of block trades off the back of significant events for companies such as Whitehaven Coal, Origin Energy and Endeavour Group.
- Aaron Weinman