Johnny Shapiro

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Jun 6, 2025 – 4.00pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? A Texas-headquartered investment manager has spent as much as $1 billion buying up Commonwealth Bank shares over the last fortnight, helping push the market capitalisation of the lending giant over $300 billion.

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Jun 5, 2025 – 4.08pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Everyone is talking about Commonwealth Bank, still! The world’s most expensive bank just keeps getting dearer by the day, making its loyal retail shareholders richer and exacerbating an existential crisis among analysts and fund managers that have refused to yield and buy in.

4 days ago | afr.com | Johnny Shapiro |Primrose Riordan |Joyce Moullakis

Jonathan Shapiro, Primrose Riordan and Joyce MoullakisJun 4, 2025 – 11.15am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? The Australian sharemarket operator backed by investment banks, stockbrokers and lawyers have called on the corporate regulator to focus on making it easier for companies to go public rather than tightening rules around fast-growing private markets.

6 days ago | afr.com | Johnny Shapiro

Jun 2, 2025 – 10.40am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Soul Patts is merging with building materials group Brickworks in a deal that will end decades of cross-ownership and bring together two of the ASX’s most storied companies into a vehicle worth $14 billion.

1 week ago | afr.com | Johnny Shapiro

The last trading day of May is dubbed “MSCI Friday.” That is when the all-important global sharemarket index dumps some stocks in favour of others to reflect their relative rise and fall. The trading volumes are typically larger than usual as the trillions of dollars of capital tethered to these benchmarks are rebalanced to reflect the quarterly changes. Loading...