Today
EL&C Baillieu ditches the ‘B’ word
It has been an uncomfortable few years in the spotlight for the firm, which has been more interesting than any stockbroker should ever be.
- Myriam Robin
Yesterday
Sanjeev Gupta bid for yacht in January
The 64-metre schooner Atlantic is the perfect vessel for an arriviste trying ridiculously hard to simulate establishment bona fides.
- Joe Aston
Joe Hockey in Blackstone’s corner
Bondi Partners has thus far managed to fly under the radar.
- Joe Aston
This Month
John Hempton’s annus horribilis
The performance of Bronte Capital’s funds has been abysmal – in both absolute and relative terms.
- Joe Aston
Hamish Douglass, a mere mortal
Hamish is the San Pellegrino of Australian funds management. He’s overpriced and practically redundant, yet everyone buys him.
- Joe Aston
Xinja continues to fail with success
A neobank that is no longer a neobank, Xinja has signed up to new digs that promise “a better lifestyle, filled with avid entrepreneurs, creative neighbours and pickable minds”.
- Michael Roddan
Sanjeev Gupta better steer clear of Whyalla
Gupta’s community spirit shtick has worn threadbare.
- Joe Aston
Kitching dons suffragette white at AusPost inquiry
In a week where the party that started the whole scandal has been keen to shift the blame back on the government, a bit of recent history is in order.
- Myriam Robin
Mike Baird reforms the band at HammondCare
These are momentous times in the aged care sector.
- Joe Aston
A strange circularity in Australia Post’s CEO appointment
New Australia Post chief Paul Graham used to work for Deutsche Post. Which is where Christine Holgate got her luxury watch idea from.
- Myriam Robin
Linfox banks $700k from booming JobKeeper recipient K&S
Linfox, owned by trucking magnate Lindsay Fox, is Australia’s fourth-largest private company. But the JobKeeper subsidies awarded to it (and many others) remain shrouded in mystery.
- Myriam Robin
Yet another side hustle for VGI’s David Jones
ASIC documents show Jones has been busy setting up new businesses, and even an Australian Financial Services Licence.
- Joe Aston
Grounded Oil Search board kept travel allowance
It is an absurdity to justify retaining a travel allowance for not travelling because you logged into some extra Zoom sessions.
- Joe Aston
Stand down Burnside: Frydenberg hasn’t got the jab
The battle for the federal seat of Kooyong continues, some 22 months after Treasurer Josh Frydenberg retained it in the 2019 election.
- Myriam Robin
Poached broker on the menu
A trial between two bitter rivals of the inter-dealer broking scene is shaping up as a journey through Sydney’s top-tier restaurant and pub scene.
- Myriam Robin
Sold short: USyd takes cash for comment
Corporate spin doctors Domestique Consulting won front page coverage for ‘short and distort’ research produced by the University of Sydney at a cost of $7272.
- Michael Roddan
Microsoft says exec didn’t speak for it
A statement released by Microsoft said Emily Rich’s comments to this newspaper were merely hers, and “not the views of Microsoft Australia”.
- Myriam Robin
Murdoch and Whittaker dine at Rockpool
Sky News boss Paul Whittaker has made no secret of his desire to move up News’ corporate ladder.
- Myriam Robin
Christian Porter the least of tech industry’s problems
Marvel at the endemic delusion, the deeply misplaced sense of self-importance, of Australia’s technology sector.
- Joe Aston
