Daily Brief Australia: Rio Tinto , Bell Financial, Kinatico and more

In today’s briefing:

Solactive Global Lithium Index Rebalance: Two Adds and Capping Changes

Solactive has announced the review results for the Global Lithium Index. There are two additions for the index and there will also be capping changes for some stocks.
Estimated one-way turnover is 26.3% and will result in a round-trip trade of US$813m. There are some stocks with over 0.5x ADV to trade.
The index has broken out of the secular downtrend, but investors continue to redeem units from the ETFs tracking the index.

Bell Financial Group Ltd (ASX:BFG) is a diversified provider of financial products and software solutions within, and increasingly outside, its traditional full-service stockbroking business.
The latest ASX ECM data suggests raisings in the September quarter were 8% above the previous corresponding period (pcp) and 45% above the June 2025 quarter.
In terms of market share, the latest Dealogic data suggests Bell Potter has held share relative to the pcp, while raising US$0.75b (A$1.2b) against US$0.63b (A$1.0b) year to date October 2025 (+20%).

Kinatico Ltd (ASX:KYP) is a ‘Know Your People” regtech company providing workforce compliance monitoring and management technology and services.
KYP announced at its 24 October AGM that its Q1 FY26 revenue had increased 14% on the previous corresponding period (pcp) to a record $9.1m, with Subscription-as-a-Service (SaaS) revenue for the quarter increasing 58% on the previous corresponding period (pcp) to $4.8m or 53% of total revenue.
EBITDA for the quarter increased 21% to $1.4m.

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