This Month
The Ivy to host Barrenjoey banker bash
The upmarket nightclub will play host to the investment bank’s staff Christmas bash next month.
- Mark Di Stefano
October
- Exclusive
- Mining
From Trump to Khuda: secrets of Australia’s most-connected director
Mark Barnaba has an uncanny ability to forge close personal relationships that turn into long-term and lucrative business opportunities.
- Jennifer Hewett
Westpac’s Luci Ellis shades her old RBA chums
The ex RBA chief economist isn’t afraid of taking digs at her former workplace.
- Mark Di Stefano
- Opinion
- The AFR View
RBA walks the line on inflation and jobs
The RBA has a dual mandate to contain inflation while also shielding jobs. The Coalition should reconsider its veto of a separate policymaking board to help it do that.
- The AFR View
Market’s war footing | Virgin v Qantas fight | RBA’s hush-hush problem
This week, James Thomson and editor-in-chief James Chessell dig into what the Middle East conflict means for markets, examine Virgin’s deal with Qatar, and ask whether the RBA should be meeting with banks and investors behind closed doors.
- Opinion
- Interest rates
RBA should spell out rules on private meetings with market movers
The holding of confidential meetings can backfire when some people think that others are getting advantaged access to the central bank’s thinking.
- John Kehoe
Barrenjoey expunges Philip Lowe’s original sin
The start-up bank’s taking the former RBA governor back to where the relationship began.
- Mark Di Stefano
- Exclusive
- RBA
RBA gives RBC Capital Markets private briefing, bars bank after leak
The incident is the second off-the-record discussion between the central bank and traders that has been made public. It was held after a February rate decision.
- Mark Di Stefano and John Kehoe
September
Philip Lowe is Barrenjoey’s new inside man
The former RBA governor has joined the board of the bank he once lashed out at, putting them in a penalty box.
- Mark Di Stefano
Ex-RBA governor Lowe joins Barrenjoey board
In February 2023 Philip Lowe found himself in hot water after accepting a lunch invite from Barrenjoey. This week he joined the start-up investment bank’s board.
- Jonathan Shapiro
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Chalmers dumps his fiscal profligacy onto the RBA
The government has its foot on the spending pedal while the Reserve Bank tries standing on the brakes. There is no sign of the co-ordination that has been called for.
- Michael Stutchbury
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Chalmers must back the central bank he shaped
The RBA cannot fix inflation as fast as a now big-spending government wants. But the treasurer must be wary of damage to the central bank’s credibility.
- The AFR View
August
Gabby RBA spills its press flacks
If the intention is for Reserve Bank figures to keep giving interesting speeches, its figureheads are going to need serious PR support.
- Updated
- Myriam Robin
Stop telling us what to do with interest rates: RBA deputy
Economists and politicians have accused the Reserve Bank of hypocrisy after deputy governor Andrew Hauser labelled economic commentators overconfident “false prophets”.
- Updated
- Michael Read
- Opinion
- Australian economy
RBA returns serve on inflation
The RBA’s take down of government spending is reverberating loudly in Canberra and can only undermine Labor’s key argument that its fiscal policy complements monetary policy.
- Jennifer Hewett
July
- Exclusive
- Business IT
The ASX faces a ‘ticking time bomb’ as technology upgrades delayed
The market operator is attempting to simultaneously upgrade several major systems, one of which is at an early stage and already seven months behind schedule.
- Paul Smith
May
- Exclusive
- BOSS
How Geoff Wilson assembled his investment dream team
Philip Lowe, Jennifer Westacott, Mike Baird, David Paradice, Andrew Forrest and Solomon Lew are among the heavy-hitters who have joined Geoff Wilson’s charitable mission to raise money for kids.
- Patrick Durkin
- Opinion
- Federal budget
Tax inertia pushes budget towards a black hole
Redesigning the tax system against the principles of fairness, efficiency, sustainability and coherence would deliver us all with an economic dividend.
- Cherelle Murphy
April
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Big hurdle needs to be cleared before interest rates can be cut
The easy work’s done in the inflation fight. But the missing piece before interest rates can be cut looks more elusive.
- Anthony Macdonald
Lowe sees ‘strong case’ for RBA board members to stay
Philip Lowe has undercut Jim Chalmers’ push for new RBA board members, saying the existing directors are best placed to steer inflation back to target.
- Updated
- John Kehoe, Joshua Peach and Anthony Macdonald