Sydney-based mining financier Taurus Funds Management is bidding farewell to two dealmakers from its tight-knit team, whose recent exploits have included carving out Anglo American’s royalties for $US195 million ($309 million) after…
Crosby Textor records high profits as lobbyists cash in on Donald Trump effect
Donald Trump’s presidency may be alarming Australia’s steel and aluminium producers, but it’s hardly hurting conservative lobbyists. Or corporate advisers, as Sir Lynton Crosby’s CT Group would now prefer to consider itself….
ACCC in fresh warning of winter gas shortfall
The competition watchdog has urged the federal government to work with Queensland’s three LNG exporters to ensure they free up more gas for the east coast market after it found the threat…
Rumourtrage aplenty at Bellevue Gold as price falls
Before it sank 40 per cent in a year (even as gold prices surged higher), ASX-listed gold producer Bellevue Gold made a lot of investors very wealthy. Ferrari driving stock picker Tolga…
Star’s Hong Kong saviour hid relationship with criminal junket king
One of Star Entertainment’s two major Hong Kong-based investors concealed its relationship with criminal junket operator Alvin Chau from the regulators, according to a long-secret Queensland government inquiry. Chow Tai Fook Enterprises…
Matt Comyn’s CBA steps ups competition for AI engineers by opening Seattle office
Commonwealth Bank will rotate up to 200 of its top technology engineers annually through the United States, as it seeks to bolster its artificial intelligence capability by embedding some of its staff…
PwC spin-off Scyne loses one of its most senior executives
Scyne Advisory, the public sector consultancy spun out of PwC after the firm was revealed to have leaked confidential government information, has lost one of its most senior executives with the departure…
Korea Electric Power fails to secure Hydrogen Headstart funding
Korea Electric Power Corporation has failed to win support from the federal government’s Hydrogen Headstart program for a large project proposed at Newcastle, marking another blow to Asia’s hopes of securing the…
Mineral Resources faces Qantas-like negative hysteria, says L1’s Landau
A top Mineral Resources investor has rejected suggestions that the highly indebted miner will be forced into an equity raising, saying the 40 per cent collapse in the share price over the…
Brett Lee’s Sydney Beer Co, co-owned by the former Australian cricketer, owes creditors almost $10 million
Sydney Beer Co, a boutique brewer backed by former international cricketer Brett Lee, owes almost $10 million to creditors, including its chairman, the Australian Taxation Office and the McGrath Foundation. The company’s…