31 January 2021

Fink doubles down on climate

All, Best Practice, Disclosure, ESG, Reporting

GILES RAFFERTY, Corporate Communication and Media Advisor Restating that climate risk is investment risk, Larry Fink, the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Blackrock, the world’s biggest and arguably most powerful investor, is calling for companies to share their plans for the transition to a net zero economy in his annual letter to CEOs. Mr Fink […]

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31 January 2021

ASX introduces new ‘15% Rule’

All, compliance, Governance, Guidance, Reporting

Ben Rebbeck, Founding Director Recently, the ASX announced updates to Guidance Note 8 on continuous disclosure requirements in relation to earnings guidance. While the ASX retained the framework of its existing guidance in the update, its changes to Guidance Note 8 include a new ‘15% Rule’ regarding the impact of broker consensus earnings on guidance and earnings […]

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31 January 2021

Activists in Action

Activism, All

2021 is off to a quiet start in terms of Activism Bassari Resources received a requisition to remove one of its directors and appoint four nominees.  A meeting has yet to be called. At the end of 2020, a shareholder in Oliver’s Real Foods requisitioned a meeting seeking to appoint two nominees to the board.  […]

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31 January 2021

The IPO Market in 2020 – the Final Scorecard

All, Capital Raising, IPO, IR, Registries

VICTORIA GEDDES, Founding Director In September 2020 the door to the IPO market flew open and dozens of companies poured through in a rush to list before the Christmas/New Year shut down. Memories were still fresh from late 2019 when a promising IPO market was stopped dead in tracks in October as several high profile […]

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11 December 2020

2020! A year like no other

All, COVID-19, ESG, Guidance

2020 was a year filled with extreme and extraordinary events. All of which played out in the context of the extraordinary global health crisis that is the Coronavirus pandemic. A year of extremes Here in Australia we endured bush fire disasters, the death of the Holden car brand and the tragedy of SAS war crimes […]

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