The Inside Network

Slowing inflation, peaking interest rates and a renewed interest in companies with consistent earnings have sparked a rotation back into quality names in 2023. Sustainable investment strategies lend themselves to these types of businesses, according to Australian Ethical, which also sees a “massive gust of tailwind” from the net-zero push.

Thanks in part to the pandemic, employers have sufficient awareness of mental health problems in the workforce, their human and economic costs. Now is the time for programs to solve them. A multi-country multi-industry webinar last week (December 9) looked at how employers should learn from the impact of covid-19 and put in place processes…

IXUP (ASX: IXU) – With hackers on the rise, their tools and techniques are becoming more sophisticated and harder to prevent, giving rise to a global cyber security market valued at US$167 billion ($223 billion). The number of “submitting vulnerabilities” – read, attempted hacking events -went up by 63 per cent in 2020, according to HackerOne’s 2021 Hacker…

The Inside Network spoke with the managing director of Hiremii Group Limited (ASX: HMI), Chris Brophy, about Hiremii’s much-anticipated IPO, which is set to shake up the labour hire sector’s fast-evolving digital revolution. Listed on Tuesday (11 May), Hiremii is at the forefront of the transformation of the employment industry. For investors looking to take…

The Federal Government announced a push to target cybercrime with $748 million to be spent in new initiatives and an expanded security workforce. The announcement came following a targeted cyber-attack on all levels of Government, industry, political organisations, education, health, essential service providers, and operators of other critical infrastructure. The cyber threat was from a…

Benchmark-beating Stonehorn Global Partners, a specialist Asian equity team of ex-Macquarie personnel, has expanded its Australian team after a $300 million year. The team that gave up managing $4 billion in assets at Macquarie Equities to build their own business in 2019 have delivered exceptional returns in their Stonehorn Asia Equity All-Cap Fund, adding 18.6%,…

The Xero Limited (ASX: XRO) share price is rising this morning after the software company announced the acquisition of Waddle

The Australian Corporate Bond Company, which introduced single-issue liquid, exchange-traded, corporate bonds for Australian retail investors from its formation in 2013, is now expecting to take off having finally received an unrestricted license from ASIC. The full license was a battle which took place concurrently with the four-year battle against cancer by the company’s founder,…

With July coming to a close, it’s time for reporting season – and this year, it’s not going to be pretty.

All that glitters, active vs. passive and why a closer look at infrastructure.