31 July 2025

ASX fires warning shots ahead of reporting season

Giles Rafferty
All, ASX Listing, compliance, Disclosure, Reporting

GILES RAFFERTY, Corporate Communication and Media Advisor The ASX is continuing its focus on market sensitive earnings surprises during the August 2025 reporting season and has called out ASX 200 companies as being of particular interest. In broad terms an earnings surprise occurs when the price of listed entities securities moves by 10% or more, […]

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29 July 2025

How concerned is Australia about ESG really?

Victoria Geddes
Activism, All, compliance, ESG, Reporting

VICTORIA GEDDES, Executive Director. Australia’s experience of challenging companies about ESG issues, when compared to the rest of the world, has always been that of the late or slow adopter. Since 2013 when it wasn’t on the radar at all, activity has picked up every year, peaking in 2022 at 28% and briefly catching up […]

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27 June 2025

Understanding Broker Trade Data – Looking Beyond the Surface

Victoria Geddes
All, Broker, Investor Tracking, IR. Analytics, Shareholder Engagement

VICTORIA GEDDES, Executive Director. Aside from tracking who is buying and selling their shares, the next piece of information monitored by companies and IR professionals, is which brokers are most active in trading their stock Broker trade data, as reported in market disclosures and public data feeds, is the go-to source for this information but […]

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27 June 2025

ASX bares teeth on disclosure obligations

Giles Rafferty
All, compliance, Governance, IR

GILES RAFFERTY, Corporate Communication and Media Advisor. The ASX is introducing a new “close review” procedure to scrutinise companies the ASX believes are not meeting disclosure obligations. The market operator intends to enforce a ‘close review’ when it has serious concerns about a company’s willingness or ability to comply with disclosure rules. The disclosure failings […]

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28 May 2025

The case for IROs at Board meetings

Victoria Geddes
All, Best Practice, IR

VICTORIA GEDDES, Executive Director The AICD recently published an article focused on the topic of investor relations and why it should be high on the board agenda to drive investor confidence and attract future backers. It was prompted in part by the release of a global survey on IR by EY which looked at the […]

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