Australian Ethical opens its Community Grants program, urges grassroots organisations and charities to apply

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Australian Ethical (ASX: AEF) has opened its Community Grants program for 2020 to help keep charities alive and fulfilling their missions at a time when COVID-19 presents a real threat... Read more continue reading

OnMarket expands into Queensland, says scale-ups underserved

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One of Australia’s largest capital raising platforms OnMarket, expanded their operation into Queensland. OnMarket has hired Anthony Owen, who is well known in the Brisbane start-up environment as a founder... Read more continue reading

Insight Investment joins ASX mFund platform

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Insight Investment, a leading global asset manager, has announced the addition of its Insight Diversified Inflation Plus Fund (the Fund) on to ASX’s mFund service (ASX code: IIM01).  This is... Read more continue reading

Petrol prices hit 15-year low

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Singapore gasoline prices at 21-year lows Weekly Petrol Prices; China data Petrol prices: According to the Australian Institute of Petroleum, the national average price of unleaded petrol fell by 6.6... Read more continue reading

WealthO2 launches digital meeting tool for advisers in response to COVID-19 demand

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Recognising the increased need – in the wake of COVID-19 – for advisers and their clients to meet digitally, WealthO2 has launched a new feature on its investor client portal... Read more continue reading

State Super welcomes back investment professional to Board

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Ms Lisbeth Rasmussen has been announced as the newest director on the SAS Trustee Corporation Board (State Super). State Super Chair Mr Nicholas Johnson said: “Lisbeth Rasmussen is an outstanding... Read more continue reading

Weekly market update – week ending 24 February, 2020

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets pulled back over the last week as oil prices fell further, not helped by very poor economic data. However,... Read more continue reading

Zenith upgrades Nikko AM Australian Bond Fund to ‘Recommended’

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Nikko Asset Management Australia (Nikko AM) has announced that its Nikko AM Australian Bond Fund received an upgrade to ‘Recommended’ from Zenith Investment Partners on 16 April 2020. This comes... Read more continue reading

CommSec State of the States – April 2020

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Overall results How are Australia’s states and territories performing? Each quarter CommSec attempts to find out by analysing eight key indicators: economic growth; retail spending; equipment investment; unemployment; construction work... Read more continue reading

Implementation of early access to superannuation

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The implementation of the early access to superannuation for those financially affected by COVID-19 is progressing well. The ATO are working closely with super funds to enable them to process... Read more continue reading