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Retirement obviously did not suit former JB Hi-Fi boss, Terry Smart.

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It didn't make much of a splash, but one of Len Ainsworth's offspring, Paul Ainsworth, sold some shares in Aristocrat Leisure late last week to take his stake below the substantial shareholder threshold.

After 35 years of marriage, this wealthy couple split. She got $15 million in a settlement, but claims she did not know about the $93 million bonanza her former husband was about to cash in on the stock market.

Commonwealth Bank CEO has been personally meeting some CommInsure victims (and their pets).

An Israeli investigation into gift giving to its PM has been extended as police have been unable to interview key figures, according to reports.

Proving he can walk and chew gum at the same time, Sir Ron Brierley's current plaything Mercantile Investment has two takeover bids on the go as it continues to try to hoover up market minnows, writes Carolyn Cummins.

Tassie Liberal Senator, Eric Abetz, sees rainbows everywhere he looks – and he doesn't like it.

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Following his ouster by Sky News this week, what is left for this human train wreck called Mark Latham.

It shouldn't be too hard to find a replacement for Sydney Airport's retiring boss, Kerrie Mather. Wanted: Chief executive to run a gold-plated monopoly.

With Malcolm Turnbull's plans to slash corporate tax rates in peril, BCA president Grant King is leading his team to Canberra on Wednesday to show Bill Shorten's troops the error of their ways.

Funtastic is delisting from the ASX "as it is no longer in the best interests of the company" and investors like billionaires Gerry Harvey, News Corp's Lachlan Murdoch and Melbourne's Mathieson family.

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The Wall Street Journal reported that its proprietor, Rupert Murdoch, has sold his $US125 million ($164 million) investment in scandal-ridden blood testing group Theranos for just $US1.

The hedge fund veteran will be joining the board of tech startup CSB Engage when it lists on the ASX.

The first big collision of the Melbourne Grand Prix was at a cocktail party, and Australia's Formula One hope Daniel Ricciardo was among the onlookers.

It is the sort of deal that would have any real estate investor salivating: Interest free loans, and the ability to walk away from any losses if the price falls.

"We don't comment on fake news," said rag trade billionaire Solomon Lew when queried about the possibility of another top executive jumping ship.

Gerry Harvey's retailer Harvey Norman has no explanation for why its shares tanked badly on Monday.

The Singaporean investors behind alleged medicinal cannabis stock, Stem Cell United, have finally announced how they will reward the King of Cannabis.

Peter Hall's messy departure from Hunter Hall - the ethical fund he founded - is now complete. But he might just be focused on a different sort of wilderness.

Tabcorp boss David Attenborough obviously hoped the battle with Austrac would go away after agreeing to a $45 million fine.

Siobhan McKenna resigns from the Ten board to rejoin Lachlan Murdoch at News Corp.

Where in the world is Christopher Coyne? You know him, Crown Resort's chief marketing officer.

The combination of cash and Cannabis has proved a heady mix for the stock market recently. But nothing prepared the market for the astounding reaction to Tuesday's news that the "King of Cannabis" Nevil Schoenmakers is acting as a strategic advisor to another dope hope, the ASX-listed Singaporean biotech Stemcell United Ltd.

Nic Moore's Macquarie Group has sold its final stake in Thames Water for up to £1.5 billion, according to UK reports. It ends an 11 year association with the utility that endeared it to the Brits so much it was labelled the "vampire kangaroo" by Rupert Murdoch's paper, The Sunday Times, for its ruthless focus on profits and tax minimisation.

George Savvides must be breathing a sigh of relief over the decision

"Genetic factors like levels of testosterone and how the brain deals with stress can skew female investors into being more risk adverse" - Stereotypes aplenty as global wealth group State Street Global Advisors hunts alpha female investors.

You don't have to be a Silicon Valley billionaire like Elon Musk or Mike Cannon-Brookes to get excited about the 100 day race to patch over South Australia's power blackout problems with battery power.

There's nothing like the prospect of a stoush between a major multi national, and our home grown tax office, to get the pulse racing. So CBD was delighted when we heard of a court room battle brawl between Anglo American Investments Pty Ltd and the Deputy Commissioner of Taxation.

It sounds like the Hollywood thriller with everything: The prime minister, the movie mogul, spy boss and pop chanteuse – and an Aussie billionaire who is probably wondering what on earth he has blundered into.