'The most complex beasts in equity history'
Ashok Jacob is not a fear monger but he is worried about the robots sitting behind booming Exchange Traded Funds.
Tony Boyd writes on business, markets, personal finance and news. Based in our Sydney newsroom, Tony has more than 35 years experience as a finance journalist and is known for writing The Australian Financial Review's Chanticleer column, as well as his previous roles as associate editor Telecommunications, Financial Services editor, Global Markets editor, Information Technology editor and Tokyo correspondent.
Ashok Jacob is not a fear monger but he is worried about the robots sitting behind booming Exchange Traded Funds.
Rob Whitfield, the powerful new secretary of the NSW Treasury and Westpac's former head of institutional banking, plans to shake up the public service by amalgamating agencies to remove duplication and cut costs.
Australia's burgeoning pool of superannuation savings will finally get world-class governance with a requirement that funds have at least one-third independent directors and an independent chair.
A new package should lead to a significant improvement in the quality of advice on life insurance.
Shareholder activists wanting to shake up poor performing companies should welcome the latest regulatory guidance on collective action by investors published by the securities regulator.
Weird movements in Australian share prices like those seen last Friday afternoon could become commonplace according to a leading fund manage...
There are good reasons for the Australian Securities and Investments Commission to be more vigilant than usual during the volatile trading i...
Ten years after visionary Harvard academic Tom Malone's book was published, virtually all of his predictions about the transformation of org...
A gap is opening up between Australian business and major fund managers over the critical assumptions that underpin major investment decisi...
Australia's sovereign wealth fund has paid $7 million to the country's biggest industry super fund to settle a long running court battle ove...
It's too much to say the Woolworths debacle is a symbol of everything wrong with corporate Australia, but it does expose a whole range of is...
As Woolworths seeks a new CEO to replace Grant O'Brien, it should include an option to review the disastrous Masters Homeware strategy.
Thirteen years after describing derivatives as "weapons of mass destruction" Warren Buffett has reaffirmed his view that they pose a threat ...
Warren Buffett's unique strategic partnership with Insurance Australia Group is actually the legendary investor's first significant foray in...
Murray Goulburn Co-Operative Co is positioning itself to launch a serious attack on the Chinese retail market for processed dairy foods.
The user pays theme dominated the first day of the Australian Financial Review National Infrastructure Summit as politicians, industry exper...
The three foreign companies that control Australia's sugar milling industry are losing the political battle to maintain a free and open mark...
Financial markets have characteristics that turn the usual mantra about "competition is good" on its head.
Alan Bond, who died in Perth on Friday, was one of Australia's most remarkable deal makers.
Alan Bond was jubilant when Chanticleer rang him at the London offices of Screen Entertainment in April 1986.
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