May 2022
Jamie Pherous lent $13m to Shine Lawyers
It is highly unusual for a public company to borrow money from a high-net-worth individual not in the money-lending business.
- Joe Aston
October 2020
Corporate Travel's Jamie Pherous, the boy who cried poor
The company founder spent more than $30 million on a house without windows but not a single dollar on his own transformative capital raising.
- Joe Aston
August 2020
Westpac's out-of-favour departees
Departure announcements can be read like diplomatic cables: their truest meaning is between the lines.
- Myriam Robin
March 2020
Corporate Travel has enough money... today
Corporate Travel refuses to simply say how much cash it’s got left, which means not very much.
- Joe Aston
February 2020
Corporate Travel's Asia CEO unloads $3.5m shares in blackout
Larry Lo trousered $3.5 million jettisoning his Corporate Travel shares on January 15.
- Joe Aston
Even Morgans cuts Corporate Travel
Exactly which part of "continuous disclosure" remains unclear to Corporate Travel chairman Ewen Crouch?
- Joe Aston
January 2020
Corporate Travel's FY20 guidance now Wuhan delirium
On which planet can Jamie Pherous still maintain this fantasy guidance? The one where its accounts are make-believe anyway?
- Joe Aston
Corporate Travel in Christmas Eve acquisition misstatement of $336m
The company simply refuses to acknowledge – let alone justify – this publicly available inconsistency.
- Joe Aston
December 2019
Amex deal implies $725m value for Corporate Travel
What investor could interpret the Amex deal as anything but a forbidding input for Corporate Travel?
- Joe Aston
Tony Bellas marries Feros, not Pherous
Tony Bellas denied being in a relationship with Allens' Brisbane boss Erin Feros. Then he married her.
- Joe Aston
Departing Westpac director no longer setting AUSTRAC chief's pay
Ewen Crouch has resigned his position atop the Commonwealth Remuneration Tribunal.
- Myriam Robin
November 2019
Westpac's PR boss Carolyn McCann must go
After its unmitigated public relations fiasco, the Westpac brand needs a fresh keeper.
- Joe Aston
The travails of the would-be Westpac chairman
The bank's problems are the latest in a string of issues faced by companies of which Ewen Crouch is a director.
- Hannah Wootton
Maxsted resists push for more bloodshed
Westpac chairman Lindsay Maxsted says more departures will only serve to destablise and weaken the bank in a time of crisis.
- James Frost, James Eyers and James Thomson
Westpac directors don't do honourable
The Westpac board's obdurate precedence is self-preservation. It's perfectly disgusting.
- Joe Aston
Crouch in crosshairs of irate Westpac investors
Westpac board director Ewen Crouch will face an investor backlash when he goes up for re-election at the bank's looming AGM.
- Aleks Vickovich
Hartzer, Jacques advance Australia fair
What a week it’s been for the foreign-born chiefs of Australia’s largest public companies.
- Joe Aston
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Director jobs on the line at Westpac AGM
Westpac's AGM next month will be a flashpoint for the bank, which faces a second strike and has five directors up for election.
- James Thomson
Corporate Travel's Ewen Crouch sticks to black-letter law
The new boss was light on detail answering questions from the floor.
- Liam Walsh
October 2019
Corporate Travel plans AGM technology demo
Make no mistake, Corporate Travel Management is not a tech company.
- Joe Aston