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Dealing with the shocks
The AFR Business Summit will discuss what lies ahead for the economy and business, and how Australia can compete and grow its way out of the inflation shock.
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The ninth annual Financial Review Business Summit will discuss what lies ahead in 2024 for the economy and business, and how Australia can compete and grow its way out of the inflation shock.
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- Opinion
- Big four
Why Comyn was careful not to celebrate CBA’s $5b profit
A fall in CBA shares after the bank reported a $5 billion half-year profit may have left CEO Matt Comyn slightly relieved, given economic pain in the community.
- Jennifer Hewett
- Opinion
- Interest rates
Bullock’s Q&A was what the RBA’s been missing
Gone are the days of Alan Greenspan-like, inscrutable “Fedspeak”. The straight-talking governor’s first media conference was all killer no filler.
- Richard Holden
Inflation back to middle of target in mid-2026: RBA
The RBA’s latest quarterly outlook for the economy assumes inflation will fall to 3.3 per cent by June but take another 18 months to fall into the central bank’s target range.
- Ronald Mizen
- Opinion
- Big four
The CBA share price premium is really getting out of hand
The bank’s inexplicable and self-perpetuating melt-up that veteran analysts unanimously agree defies the fundamentals is powering the broader index.
- Jonathan Shapiro
- Opinion
- Supermarkets
The ACCC’s supermarket inquiry will only benefit Woolworths and Coles
The grocery giants have responded in an astute way – cutting meat prices. That could spell the end for the remaining independent butchers around the country.
- Karen Maley
January
‘About $8b short:’ big name investors buy into Canva for a bargain
Goldman Sachs and one of the world’s largest pension funds emerge as new investors in Canva, but some early backers say the deal under-values the company.
- Paul Smith
CBA rally has turned it into Australia’s most overvalued bank
A bull run has pushed the nation’s largest financial institution’s share price higher at the close of trade for much of the previous four weeks.
- Lucas Baird
- Opinion
- Retail
Woolworths and Coles should act pre-emptively to avoid big stick
Targeted price cuts would dent margins and be distasteful for the supermarket chains’ investors, but might be less damaging than onerous regulatory changes.
- Sue Mitchell
Canva on cusp of $1.4b investor and staff share sale
The sale would let early backers and employees realise windfall gains without forcing the Sydney company to go public.
- Nick Bonyhady
November 2023
Dealing with the shocks
The AFR Business Summit will discuss what lies ahead for the economy and business, and how Australia can compete and grow its way out of the inflation shock.
Nicholas Moore on how to get in early on the next big growth story
Former Macquarie CEO Nicholas Moore proposes an atypical use of large-scale government financing facilities and political risk insurance to encourage corporate investment in SE Asia.
- Updated
- Jennifer Hewett
September 2023
CEOs of CBA, Macquarie and Qantas on stage at the AFR Business Summit in 2022
Matt Comyn, Shemara Wikramanayake and Alan Joyce on stage with Chanticleer columnist Tony Boyd.
- Updated
March 2023
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
How investors can play the next five megatrends
The Australian Financial Review Business Summit told us to zoom out from today’s data to look at five big themes for the next 30 years. Investors can start thinking about how to play them now.
- James Thomson
- Opinion
- Tech Observed
Optus and Telstra unite in cyber battle
In the aftermath of its massive cyberattack Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin cut a lonely figure, but now even Optus’ bitterest rivals are in her corner.
- Paul Smith
‘Why are they going after labour hire? McKinsey is the same as us.’
Labour hire firms are being unfairly targeted by the Albanese government’s “same job, same pay” policy, says WorkPac CEO.
- Sally Patten
‘I am the poster child’: Why work sponsors are good for women
Three senior directors discuss how having a sponsor propelled their careers and made them take risks.
- Sally Patten
- Opinion
- The AFR View
RBA’s narrow path calls for a reform agenda
As Business Council of Australia president Tim Reed says, a government that promised to operate in the reform tradition of Hawke and Keating lacks an ambitious agenda.
- The AFR View
Business urged to ‘fight really hard’ against IR changes
Business leaders have been warned the worst is yet to come from Labor’s policy agenda on industrial relations and environmental approvals.
- Lucas Baird and Phillip Coorey
PEP and Brookfield point to perils in public markets
Two of the biggest names of Australia’s alternatives industry say you shouldn’t write off private capital just yet.
- James Thomson
- Updated
- AFR Live
Lowe reveals the data that would force a rate pause in April
RBA governor Philip Lowe says he is closer to hitting a pause on the rise in interest rates, and hoses down talk that rates have to move as high as those in the US.
- Updated
- Michael Read
‘No victims’ of Optus data hack: CEO
A defiant Kelly Bayer Rosmarin said while Optus made mistakes related to the 2022 hack, no customer has suffered any financial loss from the massive data leak.
- Lucas Baird
- Opinion
- Opinion
Mortgage holders are conscripts in the RBA’s war against inflation
Homeowners who bought two or three years ago may have repayments about to triple, and most don’t understand why they have to take such a huge hit.
- Jennifer Hewett
Private markets titans back their asset class over bonds
Private markets managers and bond fund managers are split on where to get the best returns in an uncertain world.
- Jonathan Shapiro
Russian hackers will face a more ‘hostile’ Australia: Home Affairs
Home Affairs chief Mike Pezzullo said Russian hackers must be brought to heel, while Telstra’s cyber boss said the Optus hack could have happened to anyone.
- Jessica Sier
Inflation forcing business to embrace ‘big R’ reform: PwC
High inflation has forced businesses to pursue the difficult, and risky, task of digitising their operations to reduce costs because they cannot continually raise prices, says the head of the nation’s largest consulting firm.
- Edmund Tadros
