Millions of pages of glossy print is being churned out from Bauer Media, but its year will be defined by five black and white pages that have been delivered to Victoria's Court of Appeal. The fives pages represent Bauer's application for leave to appeal the record $4.56 million defamation payout against Aussie actor, Rebel Melanie Elizabeth Wilson.

CBD thought it was worth checking up on the accounts of another company John Kinghorn has his fingers in over the past decade, Krispy Kreme Australia. The good news is that Kinghorn is still making good money from junk food with the doughnut business reporting a net profit after tax of $8.27 million on sales of $88.2 million.

We hear that one of Seven's digital channels scored a higher audience on Saturday night than Ten's main channel. So you can understand why Ten boss, Paul Anderson, is juggling like crazy while the NSW Supreme Court decides the future of the rescue deal from US media giant, CBS.

It is not a great time for former Rio boss Tom Albanese to be headlining the Sydney Mining Club's gala dinner November 22.

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James Packer fended off a massive vote against Crown Resorts remuneration report. It is a feat he will not be able to repeat next year.

A maverick shareholder, dressed in priests' robes and wooden cross, asked the assembled Fletcher investors to vote for absolution or exorcism for the board's corporate soul after the latest embarrassing downgrade.

Ruslan Kogan and his side-kick David Shafer offloaded a pallet-load of stock before Christmas. Again.

Nobody does the public confessional quite like billionaire, James Packer.

You know the big banks are on the nose when a disgraced pay day lender feels it has the moral authority to castigate the oligopoly.

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Myer has assured CBD it is not looking at gambling as a new revenue source as it prepares for a high-pressure investor briefing one week before the Cup.

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.