• Exclusive
• Mortgage brokers

Can the PM's mate Mark Bouris fix Yellow Brick Road?

Mark Bouris helped save mortgage brokers from a government crackdown on commissions, but can he revive a struggling Yellow Brick Road?

• May 27, 2019
• John Kehoe

• Mortgage brokers

Hallelujah: Brokers rejoice over Coalition win

Mortgage brokers win a reprieve after controversial policy to scuttle upfront and trailing commission is defeated.

• May 20, 2019
• James Frost and John Kehoe

• Rear Window

Yellow Brick Road gave One Nation $10k

With $53 million in trailing commissions to protect and One Nation controlling part of the cross-bench, investors may regard it as money prudently spent.

• May 7, 2019
• Myriam Robin

• Rear Window

Ironies abound at Mark Bouris' Mentored

The CEO at Mark Bouris' SME advice business has some history with ASIC.

• Updated Mar 13, 2019
• Myriam Robin

• Rear Window

Mark Bouris' spruiking unaffected by ASX suspension

Mark Bouris preaches business advice while his company fails to lodge its accounts by the deadline.

• Updated Mar 6, 2019
• Myriam Robin

• Rear Window

Yellow Brick Road's goodwill equals four-fifths of its market value

With a market capitalisation of $29.7 million, the company ascribes $23.5 million to goodwill.

• Updated Sep 4, 2018
• Myriam Robin

Mark Bouris' Yellow Brick Road rejects Ron Brierley takeover offer

The Yellow Brick Road founder has called Mercantile Investment Company's 9¢-per-share takeover offer "grossly inadequate".

• Updated Sep 4, 2018
• Michael Bailey and Joyce Moullakis

• Macquarie Group

Macquarie Group opts not to follow Bouris down the Yellow Brick Road

Macquarie Group has quietly brought to an end its six years on the investor register of beleaguered Mark Bouris-led mortgage and wealth group Yellow Brick Road.

• Updated Sep 3, 2018
• Joyce Moullakis

• Rear Window

Yellow Brick Road tries and fails in 'exclusive' negotiations to borrow money

There are gains to be had in forcing lenders to compete for your business. Should someone tell Mark Bouris?

• Updated Sep 2, 2018
• Myriam Robin

YBR's Mark Bouris shrugs off tricky register, seeks to gain on banks' retreat

Yellow Brick Road's Mark Bouris sees a raft of opportunities for smaller players from ongoing structural change in the lending and advice sectors, as the big banks retreat from vertical integration.

• Updated Jun 28, 2018
• Joyce Moullakis

• Macquarie Group

Macquarie Group sells down in Yellow Brick Road, Brierley's Mercantile emerges

Macquarie Group has sold down its holding in Mark Bouris-led Yellow Brick Road, with Ron Brierley's Mercantile emerging as a big force on the register.

• Updated Apr 24, 2018
• Joyce Moullakis

• Mineral Resources

How the rich invest: Chris Ellison

Getting into lithium has lit a spark under the Mineral Resources share price, pushing up the wealth of Financial Review Rich Lister Chris Ellison in recent months.

• Updated Oct 4, 2017
• John Stensholt

Yellow Brick Road posts $1m profit

A slowing residential market will curb Yellow Brick Road's new loan growth this year from the 16.7 per cent increase it enjoyed in the year to June.

• Updated Aug 30, 2017
• Michael Bleby

• Exclusive
• E-commerce

Mark Bouris joins Young Rich Lister Jeremy Same to back virtual estate agent PropertyNow

Prominent entrepreneur Mark Bouris backs PropertyNow site that cuts out agents and enables DIY sales, ahead of a potential IPO.

• Updated Aug 21, 2017
• John Stensholt

• Mesa Minerals

How the Rich Invest: Mineral Resources' Chris Ellison has made $200m this year

Shares in Rich Lister Chris Ellison's Mineral Resources are approaching their record high of almost four years ago.

• Updated Nov 23, 2016
• John Stensholt