• SVB collapse

Start-ups wary as SVB reopens coffers

Start-ups are tightening their treasury policies and weighing up new banking relationships as SVB deposits are returned.

• Mar 15, 2023
• Tess Bennett

• Coronavirus pandemic

Government rolls out revamped COVID-19 campaign

Australians urged to ‘arm yourself’ against COVID-19 as the delta strain takes hold in Sydney.

• Jul 11, 2021
• Miranda Ward

• Shares

What microcap fund managers like

Despite microcap managers being wary of disclosing their key investments, we highlight the stocks liked by five specialist funds.

• Updated Aug 9, 2014
• Tony Featherstone

Fund managers’ top stocks among small stocks and mid-caps

MACA’s result impressed. Management has an excellent track record, the company is well regarded by customers, and revenue is likely to grow well in the medium term. This mining services company is also attractively priced and generates great returns.

• Mar 8, 2014

Havas Media brings ‘agency of change’ to Australia

French billionaire Vincent Bollore is behind the launch of a new global media agency network, Havas Media Group, which plans to shake-up the Australian market after a joint venture with Harold Mitchell’s former media firm expires next month.

• Updated Nov 25, 2013
• Paul McIntyre

• Rear Window

Ports in a storm

John Porter, the legendary former boss of Austar, was bullish when he assumed the chair of marketing services firm Photon (now known as Enron, er Enero) in April from Brian Bickmore. “The companies I want to be involved in are those that will double, quadruple their value over the next three to four years. This is one. Too many media companies are out there fighting a war of attrition: ‘I wanna die more slowly than the other guy’.”

• Nov 29, 2012

TV executives must look outside the box

It was back to the sandpit for the top executives of Australian free-to-air television last week as the industry’s 60-year soap opera took a hairpin plot bend.

• Updated Oct 23, 2012
• Dominic White

No fear of being a lemon picker

Sebastian Evans cheerfully admits a client called him a lemon picker recently. He says it comes with the territory when a fund takes on risk when investors are risk-averse. But he’s only been picking lemons for a year. Evans, 26, is at the helm of NAOS Asset Management, a small-cap hedge fund that has had incredible success under his watch.

• Updated Sep 1, 2012
• Mercedes Ruehl