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Why are there so many ETFs on the ASX?

July 06, 2026

With the financial year officially over, it's time to take stock of the Australian stock exchange, which saw a record number of Exchange Traded Funds added to its board last year.So what explains this spike in ETFs on the ASX? And who is actually utilising them?And while the value of Australian stocks did increase last financial year, the ASX lags far behind the gains of other global indexes.  What's behind the growth overseas? And what explains the gap?Carrington Clarke and ABC Business Corr...

Fuelcast: A final update, for now

July 06, 2026

With the 50 per cent fuel excise cut now over, it's a good time to take stock of where the energy crisis stands - from the price of Brent crude, to the still-fragile movement of ships through the Strait of Hormuz.So how do things now compare with where they were before the US and Israel attacked Iran on 28 February? Has the disruption in Hormuz permanently reshaped other critical shipping routes around the world? And how should we think about energy security from here?Carrington Clarke and Al...

Ampol on fuel security after Hormuz

July 03, 2026

The war between Iran, the US and Israel has forced the world to confront just how fragile energy supply still is. Even with a memorandum of understanding now in place, the Strait of Hormuz remains a live fault line - and the shock has again exposed how quickly fuel security can become an economic and political question.Matt Halliday runs Ampol, one of Australia’s biggest fuel retailers and the owner of the Lytton refinery in Brisbane. He joins Alan Kohler to talk about what the conflict expos...