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Tansy Harcourt joined the business team in 2022. Tansy was a columnist and writer over a 10-year period at the Australian Financial Review, and has previously worked for Bloomberg and the ABC and worked in strategy at Qantas.

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Funds ManagementCompanies

18/08/2023. Newly appointed chair of Magellan Andrew Formica, photographed at their offices in Sydney. Britta Campion / The Australian

Relief for Magellan with no investor revolt

For the first time in many years Magellan shareholders appear to have found a management team they can back, as the company announces its first short fund and declares the ship to be steady.

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Funds managementFinancial Services

‘Quiet faith’ that makes King a market ruler

From his Bishop father to $50bn fund aspirations, Phil King has become the man many in the stockmarkets want to know more about, and they all want to emulate his financial success.

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Carbon TradingBusiness

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Don’t listen to scaremongers, Atlas Carbon tells Aussie farmers

Investing in carbon sequestration projects is an expensive business for farmers and some are being scared off by misinformation, an industry expert says.

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Cyber breachBusiness

Qantas has confirmed passenger passports were possibly exposed in a cyber breach.

Qantas confirms passenger passports potentially ‘exposed’

‘Rogue’ staff at an Indian ground-handling company may have accessed the passport details of about 1000 Qantas frequent flyer customers caught up in a cyber theft incident.

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AviationBusiness

Virgin Australia CEO Jayne Hrdlicka has scored what she calls

Project Doubles won, Hrdlicka turns focus to tennis

Jayne Hrdlicka remains the Virgin Australia boss but the clock is now ticking on how long she will stay in the role.

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exclusiveAviation

Qantas customers caught up in cyber theft

Nearly 1000 Qantas customers have been caught up in a major cyber theft after an Indian company stole frequent flyer points in a serious breach of the airline company’s IT systems.

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NETWORK FIRST USE ONLY- NETWORK NEWS PREMIUM CONTENT: NO THE AUSTRALIAN/NO NEWS.COM/NO SKY NEWS - Charlotte Meehan (left), Virgin Australia CEO Jayne Hrdlicka sitting in the middle seat, Jennifer Corbo (right). Supplied

Qantas buckles in for a fresh fight

Qantas has posted record annual profits but now it faces a scrap from its main competitor, Virgin Australia, thanks to the might of Qatar Airways.

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RetailRetail

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Chocolate’s going to leave a sour taste as cocoa prices soar

Chocolate lovers, your guilty pleasure is going to cost you even more because the world’s biggest cocoa producing region of West Africa is struggling with its harvest.

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AviationAviation

This photo taken on September 4, 2024 shows a Qantas Airways Boeing 737-800 plane coming in to land next to a Qantas Airways Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft preparing to take-off at Sydney International Airport. (Photo by DAVID GRAY / AFP)

Qantas admits it knew about ghost flights

In a statement of facts revealed by the ACCC over the Qantas ghost flight scandal, the airline admits senior executives knew it was selling cancelled flights.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos FEBRUARY 22, 2024: Generic photos of QANTAS planes at Sydney Airport today Picture: NCA NewsWire / David Swift

Qantas strikes may hit AFL grand final travel plans

Ticket holders trying to make the AFL grand final in Melbourne on Saturday are being warned by unions their flights might be affected by strike action by Qantas engineers.

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