1+ hour, 34+ min ago   (107+ words) CBA ramps ups pressure on regulator over Macquarie capital settings AFR Commonwealth Bank is ratcheting up the pressure on financial regulators to rein in Macquarie’s use of a corporate structure it alleges provides an unfair competitive advantage, after commissioning economic…...

7+ hour, 26+ min ago   (115+ words) AFR Toronto-listed Element Fleet Management Corporation has pulled out of the auction for FleetPartners, one of Australia’s largest providers of leased cars which was put into play in July. Element, advised by JPMorgan, is the only FleetPartners’ suitor to not…...

7+ hour, 33+ min ago   (105+ words) AFR It’s the biggest shake-up in the market for more than 20 years, and if current trends persist, big banks are facing hefty declines in credit card balances. The big four banks are already feeling the squeeze from the upending of…...

7+ hour, 43+ min ago   (99+ words) AFR Two super funds, an asset consultant and four fund managers debate whether Australia’s public equity markets and its biggest players are working as they should. Big superannuation funds have built in-house equities teams and shifted huge amounts of money…...

12+ hour, 25+ min ago   (72+ words) AFR If you told a room full of cautious fund managers in early 2024 that the trade of the year would involve an ugly-cute, teeth-baring monster doll from Beijing, they’d have politely shown you the door. Sentiment towards China then wasn’t…...

8+ hour, 59+ min ago   (95+ words) AFR Stock pickers must keep believing that the forces reshaping the ASX and smashing their performance are going to turn, eventually. TV’s most famous coach, Ted Lasso, had a sign that simply said “Believe” in his change rooms. Maybe it’s…...

14+ hour, 34+ min ago   (90+ words) AFR Melbourne-based builder Kapitol plans to import up to 10,000 modular units from China each year for affordable housing, student accommodation and hotels as local players ramp up their use of prefabrication to reduce high construction costs. Kapitol estimates it can…...

13+ hour, 44+ min ago   (98+ words) The great irrational mispricing is real in commodity markets AFR Time and again we see investors abandon assets at the wrong point in the cycle. Like now, where an under allocation to gold and hard assets is illogical. One of…...

17+ hour, 35+ min ago   (121+ words) Amid the rise of AI, workplaces can provide space other places can’t AFR Artificial intelligence is shaking up offices all over again as AI use on handheld devices – which lets people work at home, while commuting, in bed and even…...

9+ hour, 53+ min ago   (77+ words) Pacific Equity Partners Tony Duthie steps into his ‘venerables’ era AFR Major changes are on the horizon for storied dealmaker Tony Duthie, once viewed as heir apparent at the country’s biggest private equity firm Pacific Equity Partners. Duthie, who joined…...