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    The Financial Review’s reputation for news-breaking, agenda-setting and authoritative analysis finds new expression in AFR Live, a series of premium, independent and hard-hitting business events.

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    Being long in Unicorn-hunting VC is almost certainly a money-making trade, but there are opportunities to go short too.

    AFR Entrepreneur Summit 2024

    The annual summit for both established and emerging entrepreneurs looking to get it right in the ever-evolving business landscape.

    CBA’s Michael Vacy-Lyle and NAB’s Julie Rynski believe it is time to for Australia’s big four banks to start structuring new collateralised debt products and take more risks.

    CBA, NAB business bankers want to take more risk as competition mounts

    Business bankers believe lenders should diversify how they collateralise business loans, including methods such as equipment or invoice financing.

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    Choosing where to invest isn’t always easy for ethical investors.

    A new era for corporate sustainability

    Join the debate around the future of ESG in today’s business and financial markets at the 2024 Financial Review ESG Summit.

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    Four-year terms to end short-termism

    New Business Council of Australia president Geoff Culbert pushed the idea at The Australian Financial Review Business Summit to “break out of the jail of short-term thinking” in Australian politics.

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    Coles CEO Leah Weckert speaks at the Business Summit in Sydney on Tuesday.

    Bringing prices down a ‘joint effort’ with suppliers: Coles CEO

    Chief executive Leah Weckert defended the retailer’s profitability, while also saying the Australian market is hugely competitive.

    • Carrie LaFrenz
    JPMorgan chief executive Jamie Dimon speaking at the AFR Business Summit.

    Bankers Dimon and Lowe see upside risks on interest rates

    The JPMorgan chief said expectations of interest rate cuts had put the chances of a mild or deeper recession in the US at about 65 per cent.

    • John Kehoe, Aaron Weinman, Jemima Whyte, James Thomson and James Eyers
    Aware Super CEO Deanne Stewart.

    Private capital dominance to increase even if IPOs restart: investors

    Initial public offerings will pick up in the next 18 months but many companies will still prefer the “patient” capital provided by super and private equity, investors say.

    • Hannah Wootton
    Penny Wong says she will continue to work with Canada and New Zealand on Gaza.

    Wong backs Biden, urges Israel to ‘change course’

    Foreign Minister Penny Wong has warned that Israel will lose support from traditional allies if it presses ahead with a ground attack on Rafah.

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    Canva’s Cliff Obrecht, with WiseTech’s Richard White.

    Why Canva co-founder says AI isn’t a Kodak moment

    It’s adapt or die when it comes to AI but that doesn’t mean tearing up business models, say Cliff Obrecht and Richard White.

    • Anthony Macdonald
    JPMorgan chief executive Jamie Dimon speaking at the AFR Business Summit.

    Dimon says Fed should hold off on rate cuts as global spending mounts

    The JPMorgan chief was also gravely concerned that wars in the Middle East and Ukraine could blow out into wider regional conflicts.

    • Aaron Weinman
    Google Australia boss Melanie Silva has committed to continuing payments to media companies.

    Google in negotiations to strike new media deals

    Unlike at Facebook, Google is renegotiating deals to pay local news companies, but pushed back on paying for content used to train AI models.

    • Paul Smith

    HESTA pushes for climate-friendly directors at Woodside

    The industry super giant is the first to move on what Paul Keating says will be a trend of funds using market power to seek influence on issues like energy transition.

    • Sally Patten and Patrick Durkin
    Opposition Leader Peter Dutton.

    Coalition will seek a social licence for nuclear: Dutton

    Communities will be consulted and “incentivised” to adopt nuclear power, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton says.

    • Phillip Coorey
    Sydney Airport CEO Geoff Culbert is stepping down after more than five years.

    Australia trapped in a ‘jail of short-term thinking’

    New Business Council president Geoff Culbert says three-year government terms contribute to a crisis of short-term thinking that is dragging down the nation.

    • Phillip Coorey

    Fortescue says hydrogen hopes rest on a halving of power prices

    Fortescue Energy boss Mark Hutchinson says Australia must get clean power prices down to $US30 a megawatt hour if it wants green hydrogen projects to go ahead.

    • Peter Ker
    Treasurer Jim Chalmers at the Summit.

    Chalmers admits growth ambitions are too low

    Business leaders welcomed the treasurer’s pitch to embrace what could be a “defining decade” but questioned government policies to fix weak productivity growth.

    • Phillip Coorey, John Kehoe and Jonathan Shapiro
    A view from the top: Australia’s business vitality and what lies ahead
James Thomson, senior Chanticleer columnist, The Australian Financial Review;  Shemara Wikramanayake, CEO, Macquarie Group; Geraldine Slattery, president Australia, BHP; Vicki Brady, CEO, Telstra; Paul Schroder, chief executive, AustralianSuper

    AusSuper boss says nation in danger of losing sight of growing the pie

    Paul Schroder said generational wealth inequality was a major issue and had been exacerbated by a housing shortage that sent property prices soaring.

    • Jonathan Shapiro
    Xiao Qian, Ambassador for China, said imprisoned Dr Yang Hengjun was not as ill as his family claims.

    Yang Hengjun not that sick, says Chinese ambassador

    Hopes for the release of Yang Hengjun on medical grounds have been dampened after the Chinese ambassador said the democracy advocate was not as sick as claimed.

    • Jessica Sier
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    Peter Costello and Michael Green at the Summit.

    Why inflation and rates are set to ‘rebound higher’

    Expect interest rates to fall, but don’t expect them to stay there. That’s the big picture view of macroeconomic thinkers such as Wei Li and Peter Costello.

    • Jonathan Shapiro
    Lucinda Holdforth appearing at the Summit.

    Why business leaders can’t cope with criticism

    Chief executives who insist on hiring “yes people” soon forget how to present an argument in public, speechwriter and author Lucinda Holdforth claims.

    • Sally Patten
    BlackRock global chief stategist Wei Li thinks the slump in values for energy transition stocks is a passing phase.

    Meet Wei Li, the maths nerd who became BlackRock’s chief strategist

    Wei Li’s rise from Shenzhen maths nerd to the upper echelons of the asset manager by 35 relied on an unusual strategy: making sure she was replaceable.

    • Hans van Leeuwen
    Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Finance Minister Katy Gallagher.

    Government tax take and spending nears record high

    Economists are urging Jim Chalmers to focus on paying down debt instead of increasing spending, as new analysis shows the tax take has hit 30 per cent of GDP.

    • Michael Read
    Fidelity’s Casey Mclean.

    CBA needs growth to justify $119 price tag, says Fidelity

    Fund manager Casey McLean believes Commonwealth Bank deserves to trade at a premium to its rivals and names a biotech stock flying under the radar.

    • Joanne Tran