Proxy advisers and a conga-line of self-serving critics
It's alternative advice that rejects the company line that annoys corporate directors the most.
Hedge funds face up to brave new world
Is the worst behind for a hedge fund industry that is trying to regenerate itself?
AGL a casualty of energy wars
The chasm between business and politics is spectacularly obvious in the plaintive calls for bi-partisan energy policy but CEOs are wasting their time.
ASX stares down the barrel of a lost decade
Even the most blatantly bullish sharemarket investor would have to admit that as Wall Street hits another record high, it's simply a case of groundhog day here.
Fighting Amazon won't be cheap
Woolworths shows retailers who want to shore up their defences against Amazon will need to spend up.
The hijack of Hawke and Keating
The people who quote Hawke and Keating at the modern ALP are the same voices who tried to frustrate them at the time.
Build-to-rent a double affordability dividend
GST rules don't do build-to-rent any favours.
Trump gains chance to dramatically reshape the Fed
It's little wonder investors are wondering whether the early resignation of the Fed's vice-chair is a harbinger of coming turmoil.
Letters: Chinese investment, energy and traffic congestion
AFR readers' Letters to the Editor, Tuesday September 12, 2017.
Featured Opinion
philip baker
Whitfield's return to banking is personal
Rob Whitfield was never going to be away from banking for too long – it was just a matter of which bank he'd end up at.
tony boyd
Is now the time to buy QBE?
Nobody knows the QBE balance sheet "black box" better that new CEO Pat Regan. But can he turnaround a company that has been taking its turnaround medicine for four years?
phillip coorey
Labor willing to deal in energy war
The Coalition, Labor, and the gas producers can all take the blame for the gas crisis. But they are starting to realise that is not the point.
adele ferguson
Myer is running out of chances
Board renewal is on the cards at Myer as it prepares to report full-year results this week.
jennifer hewett
AGL a casualty of energy wars
The chasm between business and politics is spectacularly obvious in the plaintive calls for bi-partisan energy policy but CEOs are wasting their time.
jonathan shapiro
Don't count out non-bank lenders just yet
The big banks are being forced to tighten lending standards, limit investor loans and are responding to higher capital requirements by jacking up rates. But what does their response mean for the non-bank lenders, borrowers and for the financial system ?
michael smith
It's back to the future for Qantas
Alan Joyce was slated for his original deal with Emirates, but his new deals suggests it was an masterstroke.
matthew stevens
How to take on Glasenberg and win
Reinhold Schmidt says Yancoal 2.0 will be a much bigger and better beast.
laura tingle
Energy debate puts Turnbull in his happy place
Rather than being in a world of pain on energy and climate change policy, the Prime Minister is happily talking dispatchable energy and storage.
christopher joye
Red flag in Magellan’s massive new trust
Magellan's rush to announce a huge new listed trust to grab permanent capital a day before its results release may presage anxieties about future performance.
