Anne Hyland

Senior Correspondent at Sydney Morning Herald

Senior Correspondent at The Age

Senior Correspondent (The Sydney Morning Herald/The Age). Opinions/comments my own. Tips to [email protected] or [email protected]

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Hamish Douglass revs up his portfolio with MotorCycle Holdings

1 week ago | afr.com | Anne Hyland

May 4, 2025 – 8.00pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? High-profile stockpicker Hamish Douglass, who co-founded and ran Magellan Financial until three years ago, has taken a substantial stake in the country’s largest wholesaler and retailer of motorcycles.
Douglass sees a Trump recession - but he’s bullish on US

3 weeks ago | afr.com | Anne Hyland

Apr 24, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Hamish Douglass, one of the country’s most prominent stockpickers and the founder of Magellan Financial, says the Trump administration’s policies will lead the United States into a technical recession but urged investors to continue to back the world’s biggest economy for its long-term potential.
Why are female directors quitting boards in pairs?

3 weeks ago | afr.com | Anne Hyland

When an individual director departs from a company board, it typically garners little attention. It can be dismissed as the director reassessing his or her onerous workload; a decision to pursue other business interests, or explained away by a chairman in private that the director simply wasn’t the right fit. When two or more directors quit at the same time, however, it’s not so easily dismissed, and should ring alarm bells. But does it? Loading...
Death threats, 3am texts: Former Liberal MP Matt Kean on becoming a climate champion

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Anne Hyland

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Matt Kean is confuzzled. A white-and-cinnamon-coloured cat, with a gloriously fluffy coat and a bell on its collar, is standing in the middle of our path that winds through Sydney’s Berowra Valley National Park. The cat is momentarily frozen, knowing it’s been caught where it shouldn’t be, and is brazenly staring us down.
Myer CEO Olivia Wirth reveals sweeping changes to retailer’s management team

2 months ago | afr.com | Anne Hyland

Mar 14, 2025 – 9.20am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Department store group Myer has reshuffled its senior leadership team as it completes its merger with a big portfolio of clothing brands owned by Solomon Lew’s Premier Investments, its largest shareholder.
Star boss Matt Bekier accused of telling board NAB ‘supported’ money flows from overseas gamblers

Feb 13, 2025 | smh.com.au | Anne Hyland

By Anne Hyland February 13, 2025 — 6.47pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Star Entertainment’s former chief executive Matt Bekier is alleged to have told the company’s board that he believed National Australia Bank and China UnionPay had “tacitly supported” funds from Chinese gamblers passing through their financial systems.
Star boss Matt Bekier accused of telling board NAB ‘supported’ money flows from overseas gamblers

Feb 13, 2025 | watoday.com.au | Anne Hyland

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Pushback against diversity and equality programs gathers pace in Australia

Jan 31, 2025 | smh.com.au | Anne Hyland

By Anne Hyland January 31, 2025 — 7.30pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A few decades ago, a revolution arrived in corporate Australia. Companies were asked to include into their decision-making the risks posed by environmental factors, social issues and corporate governance, or what simply became known as ESG. The term first appeared in 2004.
Money manager Betashares plans Asian expansion after blockbuster year

Dec 29, 2024 | smh.com.au | Anne Hyland

By Anne Hyland December 30, 2024 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. For the past 14 years, Alex Vynokur, the co-founder of Betashares, has quietly built his company into one of the largest local providers of exchange-traded funds and one of the country’s fastest growing asset managers. In 2024, Betashares attracted inflows of $16 billion, lifting its total funds under management to $46 billion.
Murdoch’s court defeat creates uncertain path ahead for his media empire

Dec 9, 2024 | smh.com.au | Anne Hyland

By Anne Hyland December 10, 2024 — 7.32pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In the mid-1960s, media baron Rupert Murdoch bought a single-storey stone house that sat on thousands of hectares of pastoral land, not far from Canberra, for $200,000. The estate, called Cavan, which sprawls along the banks of the Murrumbidgee River, now spans more than 10,000 hectares and is worth multi-millions.