The US securities regulator proposes to claw back some of the alleged "ill-gotten gains" from former Rio Tinto boss, Tom Albanese. And there are certainly a lot of gains for it to target.

The story goes that ASIC chairman, Greg Medcraft, was about to hand in his badge as Australia's top corporate cop in April last year – with just one week left in office – when he heard his tenure was being extended another 18 months.

In these financially uncertain times, who would you turn to? That's right, rock legend Sir Bob Geldoff, who headlined the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) National Adviser Conference on the Gold Coast over the weekend.

We don't see Commonwealth Bank boss, Ian Narev, as the sort of person to sit back and ride out his final months in charge of our biggest bank - even as his chairwoman Catherine Livingstone rampages like a financial wrecking ball through his money making machinery.

Sometimes the market can just smell something. Sometimes it's the hint of off milk wafting into the noses of brokers; other times it's surging demand for vitamin-rich infant formula that tickles nasal nerves.

What possessed Myer chairman Paul McClintock to tempt fate by announcing in September that he won't be stepping down before next months shareholder meeting - as he promised at last year's AGM.

As the Mick McMahon-led Ingham's Group prepares for its first anniversary as a listed stock, he can at least breathe a sigh of relief over the fact that the chook stock has flown comfortably above its $3.15 IPO price.

Something magical happened to the pay packet of Trevor Croker, the new CEO of poker machine maker, Aristocrat Leisure, when he moved to the US. It more than doubled.

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Ahmed Fahour turns 51 this month, and is obviously not ready to be put out to pasture just yet. Barely months after leaving his well-remunerated CEO position at Australia Post, Fahour has found himself another executive role.

Have you ever wondered what would happen if News Corp terminated the employment of its founder, 86-year-old Rupert Murdoch, "for cause"?

Westpac, ANZ, American Express and an AFL footballer – this case, which came across our desk just the other day, certainly entangles some interesting folk.

The retirement of Commonwealth Bank's New Zealand CEO, Barbara Chapman, only highlights the unseemly volume of talent turnover at the scandal prone bank.

When Dr Jerry Schwartz discovered a massive model of a heart in a Darling Harbour parking lot that he had just purchased, he knew it was an omen for his most expensive real estate deal to date

Put away the bunny ears, the pipe and hang up the red silk pyjamas, as the man who put skin into the magazine world, Hugh Hefner, has left his mansion for the last time.

The sale of Network Ten to US broadcasting titan CBS has been strewn with obstacles as media moguls Lachlan Murdoch and Bruce Gordon attempt to thwart the deal.

The revolving door at embattled McGrath real estate group has done another revolution with the departure of its finance director, Paul Hauenschild.

It was all guns blazing at the Premier Investment's results on Monday when chairman Solomon Lew had a shot at everything and everyone.

Former All Blacks World Cup winning captain (and CBD's former boss at Fairfax Media) David Kirk was happy to put in the boot on a disastrous investment in his Bailador tech fund.

Executives at James Packer's casino operator, Crown Resorts, have found out the hard way that the house doesn't always win.

Executives at James Packer's casino operator, Crown Resorts, have found out the hard way that the house doesn't always win.

Former Australian of the Year Simon McKeon – the last remaining independent director at Spotless – is still holding out on the Downer-dominated board.

It's a case of the executive who came in from the cold at TZ Ltd.

According to a character in David Williamson's Emerald City, the problem with Sydney people is that they know the meaning of life: waterfront real estate.

For Lachlan Murdoch, it is Network Ten or bust.

It isn't often you get an ASX board member openly boasting about their decision to exercise options and pick up a big wack of stock in their company, but let's indulge former QBE chairwoman Belinda Hutchison on her decision to take the plunge on Geoff Wilson's charity venture, Future Generation Investment Company.

Changes at insurer QBE means that its top paid executive for the past three years, Pat Regan, is now its CEO.

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It will go down as the most painful sale of the spring sales season.

There will be plenty of winners If the long-awaited Tatts/Tabcorp merger is consummated on November 1, just days before the Spring Racing Carnival's big week kicks off.

Irish eyes might finally be smiling on Aussie billionaire Gerry Harvey.