Bendigo Bank’s acquisition is positive, but timing isn’t
Bendigo and Adelaide Bank (ASX: BEN) announced last week that it will acquire RACQ Bank's retail lending and deposit business in a deal worth A$5.2 billion in total assets. The acquisition includes A$2.7 billion in retail loans, A$2.5 billion in deposits, and more than 90,000 customers. Management…
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The Reserve Bank of Australia meets this Tuesday, and anyone hoping for mortgage relief will likely be disappointed. With inflation still sitting at 3.2%, stubbornly above the RBA's 2-3% target range, economists are near-unanimous that rates will stay locked at 3.6% for the foreseeable future.
For the millions of Australians wrestling with mortgage stress, that's another…
The Reserve Bank of Australia meets next week, and while most expect rates to stay put, the conversation is shifting. The economy is showing cracks, retail spending is soft, housing is cooling, and unemployment is rising. That raises an interesting question: what if the RBA surprises with a November rate cut? It sounds unlikely, but…
When the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) cut interest rates back in August 2025, many Australians stopped to think about their money and investments. Lower interest rates result in cheaper loans and fewer returns on savings. As such, the way people invest will invariably change.
In this post, we’ll take a look at the circumstances behind…
Rejecting a takeover offer is a bold step for an ASX company to take. It is turning down sweet quick cash for its shareholders and management. The argument most commonly made to reject them is that any offers are opportunistic and do not appropriately value the company - indeed, those very words are commonly used.
The board…
The RBNZ is cutting rates again, and here are 5 ASX stocks (based in New Zealand) that could benefit
Last week, we heard that the RBNZ is cutting rates again. If you thought Australia's economy was not doing well, you clearly have not been following what has been happening across the Ditch.
Like Australia, Aotearoa entered a recession during the pandemic but had another one in 2023 and is one more negative quarter away from…
Hear the term 'Activist investors' and you might think of GetUp, the progressive activist group that forced Woolworths to hold an EGM in 2014 in an attempt to limit the maximum bets on poker machines to $1. Or perhaps even of ESG-focused fundies like Australian Ethical (ASX:AEF). The reality is a lot more complicated and…
After an extraordinary 2024, when Australia’s major banks rose by more than 40 per cent, investors are beginning to wonder whether the next leg of the ASX rally will belong to the miners instead. The Big Four: Commonwealth Bank of Australia (ASX: CBA), Westpac (ASX: WBC), National Australia Bank (ASX: NAB) and ANZ Group (ASX:…
Pepper Money's (ASX:PPM) promise to borrowers has been flexibility. You may not be 'good enough' to match the Big Banks' standards, but Pepper might be able to help. It had a >20 year history prior to its mid-2021 listing where it raised $500m at $2.89 per share, implying an A$1.3bn market capitalisation. And it has…
AML and CTF laws are particularly relevant to a handful of large companies, particularly the Big Four Banks as well as casinos. Here's what you need to know about them.
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