Hannah Tattersall

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Skip to navigationSkip to contentSkip to footerHelp using this website - Accessibility statementFormer Queensland premier and the head of the Australian Banking Association, Anna Bligh, who led the ABA through the Hayne Royal Commission, delivered a blunt warning to business this week. Most of the hard-working bank employees, and even most of their leaders, never considered they were doing anything wrong.

1 week ago | afr.com | Hannah Tattersall

Skip to navigationSkip to contentSkip to footerHelp using this website - Accessibility statementTen years ago, Sam Murphy moved to New York from Melbourne with professional services firm Deloitte where he was working in audit. Renting a shoebox apartment in the storied West Village, he witnessed scenes being filmed for movies on his way to work and often bumped into the actor Hugh Jackman, who lived a few blocks away.

1 week ago | afr.com | Hannah Tattersall

Former competition watchdog chief Graeme Samuel has slammed the Australian Institute of Company Directors’ signature training course as a box ticking exercise and says aspiring board would be better off reading a single report by the prudential regulator and a chapter of the banking royal commission.

1 week ago | afr.com | Hannah Tattersall

Investors are more concerned with the material risks that could affect their returns than labels such as environment, social and governance, and those factors are increasingly being incorporated into broader investment considerations. Fund managers and governance experts at The Australian Financial Review ESG Summit on Tuesday said issues such as carbon emissions and sustainability were being considered alongside things such as supply chain or work force management. Loading...

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Hannah Tattersall

When philanthropist Nicola Forrest interviewed Philippa Watson for the role of chief executive of Forrest’s new private equity venture Coaxial, the two talked mostly about mistakes Watson had made in her previous roles. “All we talked about was my mistakes. It filled a very, very long couple of hours,” said Watson, who was presented with the award for overall winner of this year’s Financial Review Women in Leadership Awards on Wednesday night in Sydney. Loading...