jamesmitchell

James Mitchell

James Mitchell is a senior financial services reporter with over ten years experience. He has covered the Murray Inquiry, the Hayne royal commission and the evolution of Australia's financial intermediary sectors since 2011, with a focus on banking, superannuation, mortgages and wealth management.

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28 May 2023

EXCLUSIVE Magellan boss David George has been busy creating a culture of inclusion where fresh investment ideas are generated from the bottom up and meetings are short an...

One of Australia’s leading providers of digital advice solutions has entered voluntary administration....

24 May 2023

EXCLUSIVE: Two years after joining forces with Ken Moelis, a New York-based asset manager is exciting Aussie investors with opportunities in US private credit amid a majo...

23 May 2023

A leading Australian banking analyst has accepted that lenders will soon see a rise in bad debts as the full impact of rate hikes begins to hit borrowers....

22 May 2023

EXCLUSIVE Popular ETFs could soon come under ASIC’s radar as major ESG funds hold stocks that leading investment managers believe are far from ethical....

19 May 2023

EXCLUSIVE: The major product provider has rejected “hysteria” surrounding passive strategies and argues that ETFs do not distort markets. ...

17 May 2023

Glenn Stevens knows all too well how long inflation can hang around for. This week, he warned Australians of the difficult road ahead....

17 May 2023

OPINION: Fixed income has been an overlooked and misunderstood asset class for most Australian retail investors. Hopefully, bonds have our attention now....

16 May 2023

Morgan Stanley has joined Jefferies in being named as one of the banks that advised investors who have lost up to 40 per cent of their money in Carl Icahn’s NASDAQ-listed...

16 May 2023

Australians like to believe property values double every 10 years. It doesn’t — and the next decade could see annual growth rates of around 3 per cent as we navigate a ne...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

1 month ago

This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...

1 month 1 week ago

Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....

1 month 1 week ago

Insignia Financial has confirmed it is considering a preliminary non-binding proposal received from a US private equity giant to acquire the firm. ...

2 weeks 3 days ago

Six of the seven listed financial advice licensees have reported positive share price growth in 2024, with AMP and Insignia successfully reversing earlier losses. ...

1 week 5 days ago

Specialist wealth platform provider Mason Stevens has become the latest target of an acquisition as it enters a binding agreement with a leading Sydney-based private equi...

1 week 4 days ago