There are perverse incentives to exaggerate sustainablity claims – made easier by the lack of uniformity in measuring and reporting such results.
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The Reserve Bank’s Term Funding Facility was meant to support lending during COVID. Instead the funds might be ending up in the accounts of bank shareholders.
By raising funds the way they do, companies deplete the wealth of shareholders who didn’t take part.
Executives are often given bonuses that “vest” on a particular date. If the share price is high on that date, regardless of the reason, they get payouts.
Our super funds could have cleaned up when the market crashed 40% and then rebounded by about as much. That they didn’t says a lot about how hard it is to time trades.
Chief executives have moved on from buying while spreading bad news. They’re buying while spreading uncertainty.
The coronavirus stock market crash is more jumpy, and harder to rein in, in part because of the role of retirees.
Myer misled the market, but the market didn’t believe it. The judgment provides a road map for future class actions.
Most of Australia’s biggest companies are majority-owned by US investors. This concentration of overt foreign influence should concern us.
Australia has more to fear than most countries from a global trade and currency war. All eyes will be on the Reserve Bank governor Friday as he attempts to outline what might happen.
The ASX was late to the corporate governance party and its fourth reheat remains as flawed as ever.
The reality is that companies are at risk without a social licence to operate, so why shy away from the term?
Bank shares soared 4% to 7% after the royal commission report. That could be because it will do them little harm.
The corporate sector owes David Murray a debt of gratitude for starting a debate about ASX governance rules that lead boards to delegate matters that are properly their responsibility.
Businesses who pay dividends to shareholders with tax credits attached pay more tax, new research finds.
Volatility indexes show that investors have been complacent about the risk of a share market correction.
It seems there is a gap between what companies publicly assume or state they are doing with the sustainable development goals and what they are actually doing.
While everyone has heard of Bitcoin, the real potential in the blockchain is only just starting to be unlocked.
What a difference a year makes. In January 2016, ASX was bathing in the warm glow of having been acclaimed by Blythe Masters, an American super saleswoman and head of a Blockchain start-up called Digital…
Social media communication like Twitter can influence investor decisions in an unequal way and whether the company intends it or not, research finds.
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