November 2024
- Exclusive
- Luxury property
Billionaire splashes $22m on restaurateurs’ Toorak mansion
Melbourne’s billionaire Heine family have snapped up a grand art deco home in Toorak owned by famed restaurateurs Andrew McConnell and Jo McGann.
- Bonnie Campbell
April 2024
- Opinion
- Federal budget
Albanese’s new fund manager CEO doubles down on meetings
The new $15 billion National Reconstruction Fund is already doing strange things, including holding its first two board meetings on the same day.
- Aaron Patrick
February 2024
Christine Holgate still gunning for Australia Post
Making Australia Post cheaply distribute its competitors’ parcels would hamper Australia Post’s finances. For Christine Holgate, that might be a bonus.
- Myriam Robin
December 2023
Bonfire of the CEOs: Rear Window’s 2023 year in review
The year ended with a lecture from the mining establishment, but not before a carry-on of CEOs joined the unemployment queue.
- Myriam Robin and Mark Di Stefano
September 2023
Rich Lister Raphael Geminder’s other packaging disaster
The billionaire wants to take Pact Group off the ASX, but another listed group in which he owns 66pc has also suffered a big slide.
- Simon Evans
August 2023
Australia Post ‘horror movie’ headed for multibillion-dollar bailout
The government-owned business enterprise says losses are forecast to continue unless services are drastically cut back, including phasing out letter delivery.
- Patrick Durkin
Business must maximise reconstruction fund wins: O’Dwyer
The former Liberal minister says a landmark $15 billion investment vehicle is an opportunity to boost Australia’s sovereign capability.
- Tom McIlroy
May 2023
Christine Holgate can’t let go of Australia Post
She may no longer be the CEO, but she still has Australia Post on her liver.
- Joe Aston
April 2023
Coles credit card customers exposed in Latitude data breach
The supermarket retailer said cardholders before 2018 could be impacted, adding the financial services firm had not provided further details.
- Carrie LaFrenz
March 2023
Latitude breach now one of the biggest in Australian history
What was first reported as the theft of 330,000 customer records is now up to 14 million records, and counting.
- John Davidson
Latitude is Ahmed Fahour’s big miss
Over his career, Fahour’s principal aptitude was securing for himself remuneration packages of almost sublime immensity.
- Joe Aston
Latitude says cyberattack ongoing, more customers may be affected
The non-bank lender says it is not taking on any new customers after being forced to “isolate” some of its technology platforms.
- James Eyers
February 2023
- Opinion
- Earnings season
The reality-defying optimism of ASX CEOs
The gap between how some CEOs describe their company’s performance, and reality, seems to have become unusually large.
- Aaron Patrick
Latitude profit plunges, Fahour to leave in April
The steep rise in interest rates is hitting consumer lenders, but Latitude staved off the crunch by passing through higher rates to its customers.
- Ayesha de Kretser
Can Chinese tourists help save Australian retailers?
Chinese tourists spent $12 billion in Australia annually before the pandemic and there’s hope that much of that spending will slowly return.
- Carrie LaFrenz and Simon Evans
December 2022
Rear Window’s 2022 in review
In 2022, an abundance of notable misbehaviours went down in the Rear Window universe.
- Joe Aston
August 2022
Ahmed Fahour says non bank lenders set to struggle
The retiring CEO says other the non-bank lenders will struggle under the weight of drastically higher funding costs, with the sector’s focus now shifting to profitability over growth at all costs.
- Ayesha de Kretser and Jonathan Shapiro
June 2022
‘Muppet Show on steroids’ as Humm board quits, Wylie breaks silence
Angry shareholders take a “win” as the board quits, but most are losers in this messy corporate battle.
- Ayesha de Kretser
Humm director defends board’s actions after collapse of Latitude deal
Analysts have downgraded the embattled consumer finance and commercial leasing group after the collapse of its deal with Latitude Financial.
- Updated
- Ayesha de Kretser
Christian, Wylie told to quit Humm, Fahour’s Latitude rating cut
There are no winners in the Humm shambles, with Latitude shares downgraded after the consumer finance division sale was scrapped.
- Ayesha de Kretser