If you thought house prices have gone through the roof, spare a thought for the Realestate.com.au (REA) director who decided to buy his first shares after a decade on the board.

While other US CEOs were ducking the fallout from Donald Trump's latest explosion, Visy billionaire Andrew Pratt was talking about his other great US buddy: Amazon.

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The value destruction during the reign of Andy Penn has been enormous.

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ASX-listed funeral service provider, Invocare, thought a side bet on real estate ought to be a winner, and boy has it paid off.

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While Amber Harrison has been forced to launch a public appeal to avoid bankruptcy over her legal battle with Kerry Stokes' Seven West Media, it looks like her former lover - Seven West chief executive Tim Worner - might be paying a more modest financial penalty.

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You watched the salacious legal battle between Amber Harrison and Kerry Stokes' Seven West play out in the media, now you can help fund her legal costs.

There was no extra topping in the pay packet of Domino's Pizza boss, Don Meij, last year.

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Jeff Kennett's promotion to be chairman of ASX-listed independent trustee group, EQT Holdings, might be one that he cherishes as much as his time serving as president of his beloved AFL team, Hawthorn.

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When you look through the CBA annual report, the most striking thing is who dodged the pay packet carnage.

James Packer and Lachlan Murdoch get lay a ghost from their youth to rest this week when One.Tel holds a final meeting for creditors and shareholders this week.

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After two years of double-digit rises, AGL has finally agreed to cap one of its most sensitive costs: the salary of its boss Andy Vesey.

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Aussie Home Loans founder John Symond will be making out like a bandit – again – as he sells his remaining 20 per cent stake in the mortgage broking business to the bank, which could yield a $100 million-plus pay day.

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The recipe is simple. Add former Bellamy's boss, Laura McBain, to a 48 per cent stake in Maggie Beer's food business and watch the latest ASX sensation emerge.

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CBD was wondering what financial incentive CBA had to ensure the success of its specialised deposit ATMs (IDMs), which caused all the trouble.

One of the supreme acts of corporate sacrifice went unnoticed last month, when Qantas chairman, Leigh Clifford, handed in his resignation as a board member of Equestrian Australia.

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The Commonwealth Bank reports its full-year results next Wednesday, but chief executive Ian Narev no longer has to worry about the forecast $9.8 billion profit dominating the headlines.

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Given the year he has had, is it any wonder that James Packer is getting interested in virtual reality.

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It's good to know that, with financial collapse looming, the political priorities of Network Ten was as incoherent as its TV programming.

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Exclusive: Could BHP Billiton's short-lived but memorable CEO, Brian Gilbertson, be making his long-awaited return to the ASX?

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Jan Cameron has worn many hats over the years: Kathmandu founder, philanthropist, conservationist – and more recently corporate agitator at Bellamy's.

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When the Medici family, who invented modern banking, wanted to intimidate rivals they did it with food. Sumptuous banquets that displayed their wealth and power. Nic Moore's Macquarie Group might have been taking a leaf out of the Medici book at Thursday's shareholder meeting.

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He may be weeks away from his 60th birthday, but our former treasurer and Nine Entertainment chairman, Peter Costello, showed he still knows how to play an audience.

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Melbourne businessman, Mark Rowsthorn, salvaged most of the McAleese Group from administration in February. But 180 staff are about to lose their jobs after one of the businesses in the rescued group, Australian Road Express (ARX), gets wound up by receivers.

One of Sydney's finest legal minds was unhappy at this taste of reality TV.

Every family has its black sheep, and the family of our top corporate cop, ASIC chairman Greg Medcraft, is no different.

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Robo-advice is the new black – or the new gold – with former Wallabies captain Stirling Mortlock joining Chris Brycki at Peak Advisors.

There is one more momentous decision that needs to be made by the Australia Post board before Ahmed Fahour hangs up his postie hat this Friday: Will he retain the board seat at Dubai logistics group, Aramex.

Is Myer's departing deputy arriving at Amazon?

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There has been carnage across the ditch where New Zealand's biggest construction group, Fletcher Building, announced its second profit downgrade in a matter of months despite the country experiencing a building boom.