Everbody was caught with their pants down when it came to Donald Trump's unexpected election victory, including the bookies, which are paying dearly for their collective misjudgement.

It isn't often you get a successful chief executive regretting the announcement of their own retirement. But it was a rather costly announcement for Aristocrat Leisure boss, Jamie Ronald Odell.

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With the biggest reality TV event of the year playing out before us with the US Election, some of Australia's biggest corporations appear to be using the opportunity to "take out the trash".

AFL chairman Mike Fitzpatrick was smacked with a record protest vote by Pacific Current investors. Now they want to bench him.

Former burger flipper Peter "Maccas" Bush knows how to deliver on the fast food front, so it should be no surprise that the revised IPO of the Ingham chicken processing business was not the disaster everyone had been predicting.

Property developer and rev head, Brian Boyd, finally won over fellow investors with his latest attempt to privatise his ASX-listed vehicle, Payce Consolidated.

When somebody absconds with company funds, you expect the loot to end up in a Swiss bank account, but that was not the case with Ashley Howard.

Is Australia's richest female CEO, Fone Zone founder Maxine Horne, getting a bit too rich for the likes of her business partner, Telstra?

Despite devoting the best part of two decades, and a billion dollars, to winning the Melbourne Cup Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum still couldn't crack the big race.

Having a hard time making your Melbourne Cup pick? Maybe you need a bit of corporate knowledge to give you that winning edge.

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ANZ boss, Shayne Elliott, is trying to dismantle the Asian legacy of his predecessor with as little fanfare as possible.

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William Hill's local operation – run by the very popular Tom Waterhouse – lost £72.1 million last year. That equated to a loss of $144 million in local currency, according to the accounts of its subsidiary William Hill Holdings Pty Ltd.

Donating her controversial bonus to the families affected by the Dreamworld tragedy, Ardent Leisure boss Deborah Thomas now effectively earned less than half of what her predecessor made last financial year. The kicker is, he didn't work a single day.

The award for the biggest punch-up of the AFL off season might just go to its chairman, Carlton legend Mike Fitzpatrick.

The iconic flying kangaroo that has adorned Qantas planes for more than 70 years lost its wings in a 1984 redesign.

Pokie legend Len Ainsworth has given his fellow Ainsworth Game Technology (AGI) investors a lesson in how to play the old one-armed bandits.

It was meant to be the magic formula for Bega Cheese investors - team up with China darling, Blackmores, in the infant formula market and watch the money roll in.

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Roger Sexton has bidden farewell to the listed wealth management concern by trumpeting the group's aim "to positively contribute to the lives of individuals and their communities".

Network Ten CEO Paul Anderson probably wished he were anywhere else yesterday as the market sold off his company's shares in the wake of a dismal quarterly update.

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Treasury secretary John Fraser is a busy man. Very busy. As he reminded Senate estimates a few times on Wednesday.

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It was refreshing to see social justice getting an outing in banking circles.

The host of Australia's version of The Apprentice, Mark "The Donald" Bouris, will again have a chance on November 26 to see how patient TZ Limited shareholders are.

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One Nation's WA Senator Rod Culleton has invoked Martin Luther King Junior, Dennis Lillee and Gough Whitlam in his maiden speech to Parliament.

What to do about the problems in life insurance will be just one of items on the lengthy "to-do" list awaiting Catherine Livingstone takes over the chairman's role at the Commonwealth Bank at the end of the year.

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Your life insurance company can no longer spy on you in the loo under the first code of conduct for Australia's life insurance companies. 

Cronulla Sharks sponsor Capitol Health has lost its chief executive officer after losing $350 million of its value.

ANZ Bank's chief teller, Shayne Elliott, seemed to channel the former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, with the amount of times he said "sorry" ,when it was his turn at the banking inquiry in Canberra.

Put away the teppanyaki set. The bank inquiry was hardly the grilling Australians were promised.

Will it a wet-lettuce slapping or a genuine mea culpa when the heads of the big four banks front the House of Representatives economics committee this week?