October 2023
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Bullock’s predictable problem in an unpredictable world
The confusion roiling global markets won’t end, but Australia’s rental crisis is a more fundamental imbalance of supply and demand. It means the RBA governor’s job won’t get any easier.
- Jennifer Hewett
June 2023
Investor AXA IM shrugs off housing bill delay
Community providers say the political uncertainty shown by the hamstrung HAFF bill will keep investment out of the lower end, where it is badly needed.
- Michael Bleby
November 2022
Eurozone edges away from risk of deep winter recession
A mild autumn and lower energy prices have improved the near-term outlook, but next winter looks bleak.
- Valentina Romei and Martin Arnold
July 2022
Former Coca-Cola Amatil boss Dean Wills dies, aged 89
A humble start picking fruit in South Australia’s Riverland was a building block on the way to the very top of Australia’s biggest soft drinks group.
- Simon Evans
July 2021
AusSuper, Axa join Logos for mega Moorebank deal
The sheer scale of the deal also shows the confidence major institutional players have in the prospects for real estate.
- Nick Lenaghan
June 2021
Ransomware claims heap pressure on insurance industry
A ‘tipping point’ in ransomware attacks is upending the cyber insurance industry, pushing up the requirements and cost of coverage just as more companies need it.
- Rachel Lerman and Gerrit De Vynck
May 2021
Skyscrapers rising next to vacant towers mark new City of London
While the pandemic is emptying offices at the fastest pace in more than a decade, it hasn’t slowed the coming wave of high-rises.
- Jack Sidders
US opens debate over cyber ransom payments after pipeline hack
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has long opposed such payments on the grounds that they will encourage more ransomware attacks.
- James Politi, Katrina Manson, Derek Brower, Myles McCormick and Hannah Murphy
ME Bank slapped down for ‘serious and systemic’ breaches
The sanction amounts to a naming and shaming for the lender after it launched a remediation plan last year to rectify the scandal.
- Michael Roddan
April 2021
- Exclusive
- Proptech
Equiem acquires British Land’s Vicinitee tenant portal
Australian proptech firm buys a rival portal that takes it into 157 new buildings immediately and will boost its further growth ambitions.
- Michael Bleby
March 2021
Stripe valuation soars to $122b
The payments provider has become Silicon Valley’s most valuable private company.
- Miles Kruppa and Tim Bradshaw
October 2020
AXA Life Re sets up Australian arm, targets superannuation funds
French giant AXA is set to re-enter Australia's reinsurance market as an onshore reinsurer after a 10-year hiatus, and is expected to target life and disability insurance policies sold via superannuation funds.
- Sarah Thompson, Anthony Macdonald and Tim Boyd
June 2020
Oil and gas insurers are next: Unfriend Coal
Unfriend Coal, the global activist organisation that pressures insurers to stop underwriting and investing in coal, will expand its remit to include oil and gas.
- James Fernyhough
AXA IM bares its teeth to boards on climate
The $1.3 trillion investment behemoth warns it will vote against Australian companies that fail to align their business activities to the Paris Agreement goal.
- James Fernyhough
March 2020
Climate change will force up premiums: Swiss Re
Swiss Re says climate change is already resulting in a "whole new world" of weather uncertainty that will inevitably push up the cost of insurance in Australia
- James Fernyhough
February 2020
- Analysis
- Fintech
Inside BlackRock's black box
About 10 per cent of global stocks and bonds sit on BlackRock’s vast technology platform and critics argue that it could destablise the entire financial system.
- Richard Henderson and Owen Walker
Less apartments, more offices: Caydon reworks Nylex plan
The refreshed masterplan includes a 206 room hotel to be operated by Accor and a 15,000 sq m office building in a shift away from residential.
- Larry Schlesinger
January 2020
- Analysis
- Paris Agreement
BlackRock seeks to regain lost ground in climate fight
The world’s largest asset manager has been talking about the risks of global warming for years. Yet critics argue that it has failed to live up to its own rhetoric.
- Updated
- Attracta Mooney and Owen Walker
June 2016
BHP Billiton struggles to get Newcastle coal export terminal financing
A setback refinancing BHP Billiton's Newcastle coal export terminal shows how even the big guns struggle to get financing for coal.
- Updated
- James Chessell
March 2016
How AMP learnt that bigger isn't always better
Five years on from a transformational acquisition, shareholders are yet to reap the promised rewards.
- Updated
- Stewart Oldfield