ASX Announcements
Yesterday
AirTrunk’s bankers delay NBIOs; new DD materials on the way
AirTrunk’s sell-side advisers informed potential bidders late last week that the $600 million-a-year business is expecting to ink new client contracts in the near term.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
This Month
Investors put Bingo on watch as debt trades at a discount
Street Talk understands a small clip of long-dated debt in Macquarie’s waste management play Bingo traded in the past few weeks.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Fundies have Regis Healthcare founder’s stake on their watch lists
The market has a close eye on founding director Bryan Dorman’s stake in the $1.2 billion aged care provider.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
- Exclusive
- Investing
Macquarie stokes ETF price war, slashes fees to 3 basis points
Macquarie wants to shake up the asset management sector with ETFs charging management fees as low as 3 basis points.
- Tom Richardson
Macquarie dominated on-market block trades in April; Goldies dips
The investment bank’s transition desk was run off its feet, handling a mammoth growth equities transition valued somewhere between $1 billion and $2 billion.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Karoon CEO schmoozes investors, but activists aren’t backing down
Activist investor Sandon Capital has accused the top executive of employing “stalling tactics” ahead of the oil and gas producer’s annual general meeting.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Has Qantas really changed?; Perpetual’s fall from grace; AI’s big energy problem
This week on the Chanticleer podcast, James and Anthony look at Qantas’ $120 million settlement, extract lessons from the demise of funds management giant Perpetual, reveal why everyone is talking about data centres and energy.
Macquarie readies sale of $450m-a-year Kinetic; seeks 10x multiple
Kinetic recently ruled off a $1.6 billion refinancing which Macquarie reckons puts it in a position to accelerate the decarbonisation of its fleet.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Billionaire Kerry Stokes takes it all very personally
In the media business, he who controls distribution, controls all.
- Mark Di Stefano and Myriam Robin
Macquarie’s Tim Joyce puts annual conference to good use
There’s nothing like the annual Macquarie Australia conference to drive home the synergies available to the full-service investment bank.
- Updated
- Myriam Robin
Westpac CEO wants super on a level playing field
The bank boss said comments by Apollo Capital Management should force an urgent rethink on regulatory rules for super funds.
- James Eyers
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
The four key themes dominating Macquarie’s talkfest
Macquarie chief Shemara Wikramanayake is the perfect person to open the biggest investor conference of the year with the last of her issues a sleeper for a lot of us in Australia.
- Updated
- Anthony Macdonald
ANZ reveals $2b buyback; Macquarie bets on AI; Bonza backers’ plot
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
Macquarie bets big on data centres in AI revolution
Shemara Wikramanayake expects the biggest tech companies to consume more data in their quest to sharpen AI platforms.
- Aaron Weinman
PwC survives Macquarie audit review
PwC has audited the Millionaires’ Factory since 1993, and it is one of its most lucrative ASX contracts.
- Lucas Baird
Former APRA chairman Wayne Byres joins ASX board
His appointment comes as the exchange faces a range of governance questions after its failure to replace ageing clearing and settlements infrastructure.
- James Eyers
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Macquarie guru Viktor Shvets says mind the generation gap
The pro-Palestine protests at university campuses around the world are a symbol of the generational transition under way. Investors should be ready.
- James Thomson
- Updated
- Earnings season
Macquarie takes hit on green energy
The investment bank’s chairman Glenn Stevens has warned that fossil fuels, especially gas, will be required “for quite some time to come”.
- Updated
- Lucas Baird and James Eyers
Macquarie goes after big four’s business lending lunch
The investment bank’s share of small business lending is only 1.7 per cent, but its $15.8 billion book grew by 22 per cent for the year and Macquarie wants more.
- Updated
- James Eyers and Lucas Baird
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Why Wikramanayake says a tough year proves Macquarie’s growth story
Investors have been looking past the group’s big profit drop and betting that the drought in renewable energy asset sales will end. But the rebound may be bumpy.
- Updated
- James Thomson