7+ hour, 46+ min ago  (104+ words) AFR A longtime backer of Perpetual wants to see the 140-year-old financial services giant split up and listed as two separate entities, urging the board to act before shareholder value is transferred to private equity on the cheap. A star…...

9+ hour, 11+ min ago  (107+ words) AFR In the race for riches, which model will win: merging with an offshore bedfellow, or doubling down on an "independent" Australian offering? Every law firm wants to be " and stay " in the top tier. But how? For a narrow…...

1+ hour, 30+ min ago  (102+ words) AFR A deal maker who spent the last eight years on Wall Street has returned to Australia to establish a new firm focused on what he's calling old-fashioned private equity. Jonathan Cutting, founder, 2nd Summit Capital." David Larocca was supposed to…...

1+ hour, 52+ min ago  (29+ words) AFR It's Swiss chocolates and fondue for Arnold Bloch Leibler partner Raphael Leibler. NBL owner Larry Kestelman. Getty Images...

5+ hour, 1+ min ago  (103+ words) AFR A wave of new exchange-traded funds are flooding the sharemarket as firms jump on the soaring demand from retail investors looking for a cheap and tax-effective way to access some of Australia's top fund managers. For the 2026 financial year,…...

2+ hour, 23+ min ago  (90+ words) AFR Anthony Albanese has joined the pile-on over Angus Taylor's leadership by suggesting it was not helped by his speech to parliament's annual Mid-Winter Ball on Wednesday which fell flat, even among Liberal colleagues. While the leaders' speeches to the…...

2+ hour, 41+ min ago  (78+ words) AFR Labor's $3. 6 billion plan to boost university access for lower socioeconomic students will not be enough to reverse a years-long downward slide in demand, says a new industry alliance, as the Coalition accuses the education minister of an unprecedented power…...

2+ hour, 48+ min ago  (124+ words) AFR US funds giant PGIM Real Estate has earmarked a portion of the $12 billion global data centres fund it is building out in Australia and other world markets for investment into the renewable energy projects that will be needed to…...

3+ hour, 19+ min ago  (89+ words) AFR Organised crime syndicates are targeting the NDIS and providers bribe participants with cigarettes and alcohol in widespread rorting costing the scheme $3. 7 billion a year, a Labor-backed parliamentary committee into the National Insurance Disability Scheme has found. The committee's report,…...

3+ hour, 42+ min ago  (94+ words) AFR Pledges made by data centre developer Firmus to support the build-out of energy storage fall far short of what it would need to back up its own operations, raising the risk of power shortages and price spikes, energy experts…...