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Richard Branson normally isn't afraid to put his money where his mouth is.

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The not-so fun park operator, Ardent Leisure, is a long way from the retirement home market - unless you're a restless Malaysian billionaire like Seng Huang Lee.

Aveo Group's media pummelling might have deafened the retirement home operator – controlled by billionaire chairman Seng Huang Lee – to an important message from our corporate regulators.

Sydney businessman Anthony Maurici may have lost his bid to fend of the debt holders in driller Boart Longyear, but he has had victories that have hurt more than this defeat.

Slater and Gordon's new lenders will get the first £250 million of any proceeds from its action against the UK company formerly known as Quindell.

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Pop diva Mariah Carey may claim she doesn't know where her former fiance is, but it seems the Israeli police do.

According to reports from Israel, James Packer has agreed to be questioned by the investigators over a corruption probe into the affairs of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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At the peak of the Blackmore's share bubble, Holgate had added something like $800 million to Marcus' net worth. The vitamin king is unlikely to find a recruit like her again.

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There is a good reason why Network Ten's 17,000-strong army of small shareholders were not allowed in to the creditors meeting on Monday. Their money has already been torched and the future belongs to the network's billionaire guarantors.

If the 160,000 CPA members were having any trouble buckling against their image of sober reserve, two financial numbers from the board should be enough to finally push them to riot.

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Jack Cowin's extra large slice of Domino's Pizza got cold pretty quickly after peaking at a value of $1.336 billion in August last year. It has now chomped through $600 million of his wealth since the peak.

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Insurers are meant to be dull entities, but the top brass at QBE obviously didn't get that memo.

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If there is a clear loser from Tabcorp's successful appeal - directly to the Australian Competition Tribunal over its Tatts merger proposal - it is the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission boss, Rod Sims.

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Ex-union boss Kathy Jackson has long struggled with rules.

Macquarie argues it is too small to be hit with the bank levy – ignoring the fact that no bank has profited more from government support that the bank dubbed the vampire kangaroo by the UK press.

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With just six months remaining in the big chair Medcraft notched up a big 'kill' for the team with the passage through parliament of ASIC's new user pays funding model.

How many billionaires does it take to rescue a struggling, mid-sized broadcaster like Network Ten?

Losing money on the Ten Network has become a rite of passage for Aussie billionaires.

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It says plenty about the mess at organic formula vendor, Bellamy's Australia, that almost half the cash raised from its $60.4 million entitlement offer will be used to pay off its partner Fonterra.

Investors who plugged $127 million into Beston Global Food Company, with its promise of cashing in on China's fine dining boom, have suffered a bout of indigestion from their gourmet meal ticket.

Ardent Leisure chose 5.18pm on a Friday, leading into the long weekend, to announce Thomas' reign had come to an abrupt end.

You didn't have to be an airline boss to make this year's Queen's Birthday Honours list but it sure helped.

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Andrew Grech's troubled law firm Slater and Gordon announced on Thursday it is facing yet another lawsuit from disgruntled investors.

The downside from the rapid growth in Qantas' share price is that the boss Alan Joyce missed a lot of this upside when he sold 2.15 million shares in August last year.

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Your columnist has never quite understood the complex capital structure that governs the unruly dairy processor, Murray Goulburn.

A bit of notoriety is good for a medicinal cannabis startup, but obviously not too much.

It was high time somebody checked out how Therese Rein's business sale panned out.

Maxine Horne gave Aussie investors another master class in how to play the stock market this week.

James Packer helped make Lawrence Ho a billionaire, but his former business partner is in no mood for favors following Crown's China nightmare.