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Analysts say Macquarie Group, which posted a $2.3 billion half-year profit and an 11 per cent increase in net operating income, can continue to grow its performance fees revenue and profits even if share and bond markets fall.

The financial services minister is looking at tackling scammers at the source: “Does our barista down the corner really need my email address, my bank details, my name and my mobile phone number just to buy a cup of coffee?”

Senior secured loans act as an important inflationary hedge in times of rising inflation according to Invesco’s chief investment officer.

The Australian Taxation Office’s recent annual report shows a growing gap between collectable and collected tax figures, prompting the agency to go after delinquencies as the post-pandemic economic recovery continues.

ETFs have revolutionised the investing universe for many good reasons. But ultimately ETFs are just like stocks – there are the good, the bad and the ugly.

Jan Anton van Zanten, SDG strategist at Robeco, speaks with The Inside Investor about the asset manager’s new SDG scoring framework aimed at measuring companies’ sustainability impacts.

Moving to a sustainable investment portfolio can reduce an individual’s carbon emissions by 90 per cent, research from Stockspot has shown.

Commonwealth Bank-owned brokerage platform CommSec and former CBA subsidiary AUSIEX have been hit with $27 million in fines for violating ASIC’s market integrity rules, in the largest-ever penalty handed down for such breaches.

Elon Musk’s last-minute decision to revive his original $44 billion buyout of Twitter Inc. sees its shares up 23 per cent but Tesla shares down 16 per cent last week.

Few regional towns are primed for growth, but judicious research and a key partnership with a government agency is seeing Castlerock make the most out of property.

The European IPO ranks Porsche as the fifth biggest carmaker globally, but growing volume and margins in a slowing economy will prove a challenge.

Wind and solar are gauged as the cheapest sources of electricity generation and storage in Australia, with technology costs trending in the right direction for investors.