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Hostplus chairman Damien Frawley.

The former Wallaby with his head in the Lendlease ruck

Damien Frawley’s Hostplus threw a bomb at the troubled ASX-listed property giant. Another company where he sits on the board stands to benefit.

Seven Group’s Ryan Stokes is getting kicked out of his penthouse.

Ryan Stokes in the market for a new CEO penthouse

The Seven Group managing director will be turfed from his Sydney office after the building was acquired by Lendlease.

June

Tanarra founder John Wylie is on a bad run.

John Wylie’s run of bad bets

A rumoured interest in IDP Education adds to the list of troubled investments.

May

John Wylie says the public company remains a great vehicle for value creation.

John Wylie says business leaders should stop saying these 3 words

The veteran investor says Australian business needs to stop talking about Australia’s growth problem and start acting. And the public company model can help.

Andrew Abercrombie, Humm’s founder and major shareholder, is in full control.

Andrew Abercrombie spills another Humm CEO

The man responsible for 2020’s infamous COVID-19 superspreader event at an Aspen ski party is as influential as ever.

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April

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ASX wipes $32b; Tariffs to hit pharma; $1.3trn trade unwinds

Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.

John Wylie’s Tannarra Capital has bought into Endeavour, the owner of BWS liquor stores.

John Wylie’s Tanarra picks up stake in Dan Murphy owner Endeavour

The asset manager run by the prominent former banker has a long history of agitating for change. It joins the register at a time of board uncertainty.

March

Investment banker John Wylie and his wife Myriam Boisbouvier-Wylie.

Why John and Myriam Wylie are funding a new policy think tank

The investment banker and his wife have enlisted high-profile directors from all over the country to advise the new Policy Institute of Australia.

Board diversity should not be about ticking boxes to include “every possible minority group” says John Mullen.

Mullen is on the money on genuine board diversity

The right way forward is a proactive approach to genuine diversity that would rightly reject performative box-ticking.

Chief executive Scott Hartley said the business had achieved “a number of milestones critical to our ongoing plans to simplify our business” in the half in the middle of the bidding war at his half-year results in February.

Brookfield drops out of boosted $3.4b Insignia bidding war

But other prospective bidders, Bain Capital and CC Capital, have lobbed higher $5-per-share offers for the near 180-year-old institution once known as IOOF.

Unpicking gripes aplenty around the boardroom table

Founders are “misfits and nonconformists who don’t fit into nice boxes ... but they do create nice companies,” says veteran investor John Wylie.

February

John Wylie of Tannara Capital is proposing his own version of the ASX governance rules.

John Wylie calls for annual director elections in ASX overhaul

The veteran fund manager is urging the ASX governance council to return to the drawing board and has proposed an alternative “commonsense” version of rules.

Top business groups say they will not support new reporting rules for ASX companies.

Corporate revolt set to kill off ASX diversity plan

At least four key business groups will oppose proposals to update the governance rules, killing the prospects of getting the broad consensus needed to proceed.

Preston Hammersley from Indian Pacific Funds.

Anything less than $5 for Insignia is opportunistic, says shareholder

Indian Pacific’s Preston Hamersley told Street Talk he finds himself in a bittersweet position as bids for the ASX-listed wealth manager rain down.

January

Paul Brindle has been chief executive of Health Metrics since 2022. Majority owner Tanarra has built the business’ executive team around him.

Tanarra Capital readies $400m exit at SaaS business Health Metrics

Sources said as a growing SaaS player, Health Metrics could be valued at between 6-times to 8-times revenue. That’s as much as $400 million. 

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Tanarra founder and Telstra shareholder John Wylie believes the company’s stock price would get a boost from securitising income it receives from NBN Co.

Banker John Wylie wants Telstra to sell off NBN income stream

The fund manager and Telstra shareholder is urging the telco giant to package up cash payments it receives from NBN Co and sell them to boost its stock price.

Romania’s Anca Todoni serves during her first-round match on the first day of the Australian Open. Tennis Australia is hoping to use the grand slam as a testing ground for some of its investments.

Tennis Australia raises almost $50m for sports and entertainment fund

Backers of its AO Ventures vehicle include major investors such as John Wylie and Caledonia’s Mark Nelson, along with Tesla chairwoman Robyn Denholm.

John Wylie (left) with Vidhur Rangaswamy and Lee Micelburough, the portfolio manager and investment manager of Tanarra’s Long Term Value Fund.

John Wylie’s Tanarra Capital takes Nine stake after share price slide

The former investment banker is known for pushing companies his firm holds stakes in, from Lendlease to Tabcorp, to make major changes and spin off assets.

November 2024

The Shibuya district in Tokyo. Rising interest rates are pushing companies to look at new sources of capital.

Macquarie, Wylie lead charge into Japan as deal activity surges

In a country once closed to foreign investors, companies are looking for new sources of capital and selling assets. But it isn’t easy getting through the door.

October 2024

John Wylie’s Tanarra Capital is turning up the heat on Lendlease and its CEO, Tony Lombardo.

Wylie to vote against Lendlease pay report in push for board changes

John Wylie’s Tanarra Capital will consider calling an extraordinary general meeting to force board changes at the property giant.

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