• Street Talk

The fight between Magellan and Nick Bolton is getting stuck in the mud

The activist investor has accumulated a large number of options in the Magellan Global Fund, a closed-end strategy that listed in 2017.

• Sep 12, 2023
• Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport

• Activist investing

Magellan global fund options play ‘naive’: Wilson

WAM chairman Geoff Wilson is among those betting that Magellan will eventually act to fix the discount on its closed end fund.

• Jul 12, 2023
• Jonathan Shapiro

• Activist investing

Nick Bolton seeks like-minded activists for Magellan battle

Activist Nick Bolton is seeking support for an audacious plan to force Magellan to wind up its deeply discounted $2.9 billion closed-end fund.

• Jul 9, 2023
• Zoe Samios and Jonathan Shapiro

• Activist shareholders

Nicholas Bolton hoovers up Magellan Global Fund options

The activist investor, already in a stoush with Wilson Asset Management, has emerged as one of MGF’s largest option holders. His intentions are unclear.

• Jun 19, 2023
• Vesna Poljak

• Courts

Keybridge appeal against WAM Active dismissed

Keybridge Capital’s attempt to have shares bought by WAM Active vested in the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has failed.

• Sep 10, 2021
• Max Mason

• Exclusive
• Investment banking

Nicholas Bolton’s Keybridge sues Bell Potter over 2015 Molopo offer

Nicholas Bolton’s Keybridge Capital is taking Bell Potter to court over an alleged offer the stockbroker facilitated for its shareholding in now delisted cash box Molopo Energy in 2015.

• Jul 1, 2021
• Max Mason

• Rear Window

Keybridge gets its money back

A full year after Keybridge Capital sent $5 million Antony Catalano's way to buy a stake in Australian Community Media, the money has been returned.

• Jul 27, 2020
• Myriam Robin

• Rear Window

Bolton and Catalano admit would-be ACM investment

So much for their exceedingly disingenuous protestations.

• Jun 14, 2020
• Myriam Robin

• Investing

Wilson and Bolton's Keybridge battle takes a new twist

Wilson Asset Management now holds more than 50 per cent of Keybridge and has brought Antony Catalano into the dispute through the takeovers panel.

• Mar 3, 2020
• Max Mason

• Rear Window

Nick Bolton recruits Antony Catalano to Keybridge register

Antony Catalano now owns 10.8 per cent of Keybridge.

• Feb 20, 2020
• Myriam Robin

• Rear Window

Keybridge manoeuvres out of Geoff Wilson takeover

Why on earth is Nicholas Bolton threatening to sue himself?

• Jul 3, 2019
• Myriam Robin

• Rear Window

Farooq Khan, Nicholas Bolton, Tony Hartnell in second $67m raid on Molopo Energy

Perth's "consummate cash cowboy" Farooq Khan is at it again, bearing down (for the second time) on cashbox Molopo Energy.

• Updated Apr 10, 2017
• Joe Aston

Investors in Aurora, the frozen hedge fund, contest new redemption fee

Aurora investors say a new redemption fee is unwarranted but the fund's new owner says it is needed to meet costs.

• Updated Jul 31, 2016
• Jonathan Shapiro

• Chanticleer

NSW to reform $2.2 billion automotive injury market

At a time when politicians are allergic to complex policy reform Victor Dominello in NSW is having a crack at reining in the ballooning costs of the $2.2 billion compulsory third party insurance market.

• Updated Mar 1, 2016
• Tony Boyd

• Opinion

Nicholas Bolton makes a comeback

Nicholas Bolton, the thrusting young investor who made about $4.5 million out of the BrisConnections debacle, is making a play in funds management through Keybridge Capital.

• Updated Jan 14, 2014
• Sarah Thompson, Anthony Macdonald and Gretchen Friemann