This Month
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
What our top CEOs read, watched and listened to in 2024
From business books to crime thrillers and podcasts, here’s what our CEOs did in their spare time this year.
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Macquarie’s Viktor Shvets nailed 2024. Here’s what he thinks will come next
No economic cycles? No mean reversion? Macquarie’s top global strategist’s radical view of markets challenges investors to consider how the world has changed.
- Opinion
- Governance
The good, the bad and the ugly of corporate Australia in 2024
Big deals, big names, big disasters. From AirTrunk to Woolies to our own Nine Entertainment, here are the biggest moments of the year.
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
How CEOs are using AI, from driverless forklifts to bird counts
Everyone’s doing it, but are they doing it properly? Here is a fascinating snapshot of what Australian companies are doing with artificial intelligence.
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Elliott’s bonus hit shows how grumpy ANZ investors really are
Local fund managers are clearly unhappy with the board’s approach to risk management. Shayne Elliott is wearing a lot of their grief.
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
The Fed just killed the Santa rally
Jerome Powell gave investors a rate cut. But what sent Wall Street plunging was his message for 2025.
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
MYEFO has short-term gain and long-term pain for investors
Growing government spending will help prop up tepid ASX profits. But investors should fear the longer-term issues that are being created.
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
WFH is a mess for ASX giants. It will only get messier
While Australia’s biggest companies have accepted hybrid work is here to stay, they remain uneasy about its impact. The debate is far from settled.
The 10 best albums of 2024 (if Taylor Swift isn’t your jam)
Soulful singer songwriters, rising indie superstars, Australian up-and-comers and a floor-filling techno god. Welcome to the year’s best sounds.
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Super’s $500b unlisted asset problem isn’t going away
APRA has found another area where near enough just isn’t good enough for Australia’s large and systemically important super sector.
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
The 3 housing charts that should make young people furious
New data shows how housing is slipping even further out of the reach of younger people. The election will kick off a new debate on the problem.
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Only one thing can end the $22b private health war
Brookfield’s latest fund injection into Healthscope is more evidence of the need for the government to step in to try to resolve a desperate and messy issue.
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
There’s a private credit boom, but Australian pioneers keep selling out
The sale of Wingate to CapitaLand marks the third big buyout of a private credit shop this year. Are founders picking the top of the market or is it a play for bigger growth?
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Business won’t miss Pallas, but there’s no easy fix for Victoria
With two years before the next state election, it seems likely that Tim Pallas’ exit will mean a shift in messaging rather than a shift in fiscal strategy.
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
10 curveballs for investors (and no, they’re not all bad)
The market is heading into 2025 with a spring in its step. But Deutsche Bank strategist Jim Reid sees risks to both the downside and the upside.
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Profit-bashing won’t help Australians become better off, CEOs warn
Politicians and regulators going after big business was one of the features of 2024. Has it gone too far, and if so, what can be done to restore the balance?
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Clause that could bite $30b Chemist Warehouse dream
The scale of insider family deals at Chemist Warehouse meant transactions had to be handled carefully as it merged with Sigma. Have the firms got the balance right?
- Exclusive
- Chanticleer CEO poll
‘Australia is falling behind’: 55 CEOs demand election action
Top chief executives say the next federal government must make the nation’s crippling regulatory burden and housing supply top priorities.
- Updated
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
CEOs say you cannot bank on falling interest rates
The big banks are telling customers that interest rate cuts are coming. Their big business clients are less sure.
- Opinion
- Chanticleer CEO poll
Why top CEOs are having a Make Australia Great Again moment
As Trump looks to attack bureaucracy and welcome investment, Australian business leaders say the country is going in the opposite direction.