28 November 2025

Activism, AI and ESG front of mind in 2025

Giles Rafferty
Activism, All, ESG, IR, media relations

GILES RAFFERTY, Corporate Communications and Media Advisor We may have never seen the like of it and there will be those who hope never to see the like of it again! The economic uncertainty created by Donald Trump’s on again/off again, imminent then postponed, severe then less so, tariffs has been an issue throughout 2025. […]

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29 October 2025

Breathing life into the moribund Australian IPO market

Giles Rafferty
All, ASX Listing, IPO

GILES RAFFERTY, Corporate Communications and Media Advisor ASIC’s approval of alternative Australian stock exchange, Cboe’s, listing application creates a significant rival to ASX for new listings. ASIC claims the approval will give investors access to more initial public offerings (IPOs), dual listed foreign entities and promote a vibrant and attractive local listing market. Cboe was formed […]

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29 October 2025

Progress towards Enhanced Beneficial Ownership Reporting

Victoria Geddes
All, Analytics, IR, IR. Analytics

VICTORIA GEDDES, Executive Director The Federal Government recently released Schedule 1 of the Treasury Laws Amendment (Strengthening Financial Systems and Other Measures) Bill 2025. This specifically addresses the level of information companies can receive about substantial shareholders in their company as well as expanding their powers to include equity derivatives in beneficial ownership tracing notices. […]

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25 September 2025

Australian Activism vs the World

Victoria Geddes
Activism, All, IR

VICTORIA GEDDES, Executive Director Up until 2022, Canada and Australia regularly traded places to claim the mantle as the country, second only to the US, with the most activist campaigns. However, post Covid, Asia discovered activism with Japan in particular rocketing ahead, followed closely by South Korea. Both Canada and South Korea have been moving […]

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28 August 2025

AI – making it up as it goes along

Giles Rafferty
All, media relations

GILES RAFFERTY, Corporate Communications and Media Advisor ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’ is the title of a dystopian science fiction novel by Philip K Dick published in 1967. Fast forward to 2025 and we discover that Ai Chatbots are prone to bouts of ‘hallucination’. IBM says Ai hallucinations are when a chatbot perceives patterns […]

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