Jemima Whyte

Senior Reporter at Australian Financial Review

Featured in: Favicon

afr.com

smh.com.au Favicon

businessinsider.com.au

Articles

Investment banking org charts get a rework to make way for the rise of big superannuation funds like AustralianSuper, Aware

1 week ago | afr.com | Jemima Whyte

Apr 13, 2025 – 6.00pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Major investment banks are reworking their reporting lines and re-allocating staff as they bend to the most promising development in an otherwise lacklustre market for big deals – the rise of private capital.
The new Medici in art collecting? Investment banks in Australia

1 week ago | afr.com | Jemima Whyte

Skip to navigationSkip to contentSkip to footerHelp using this website - Accessibility statementAsk Helen Burton, director of Macquarie Group’s in-house art collection, how she measures success. One way is the number of emails or comments she receives when a painting has been moved.
Need market guidance? The pithy stockpicker newsletter is in vogue

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Jemima Whyte

Who on earth should investors listen to right now? As if the daily, sometimes hourly, missives from the White House are not unnerving enough, there’s an avalanche of information coming from traders, tweeters and all manner of market pundits for investors to wade through. Here’s a case in point. Loading...
Asbestos victims want compensation assurances from James Hardie

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Simon Evans |Jemima Whyte

Anti-asbestos organisations have sought assurances that James Hardie will not abandon a compensation fund set up for asbestos disease victims two decades ago if it pursues a proposed shift to the New York Stock Exchange as part of a $14 billion merger with outdoor decking group Azek. Melita Markey, the chief executive of Asbestos Diseases Society Australia, said old asbestos products manufactured by James Hardie and installed decades ago were still being uncovered by renovators and builders.
Longtime shareholder Greencape exits James Hardie as chairwoman Anne Lloyd tries to calm Australian investors

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Simon Evans |Jemima Whyte

James Hardie chairwoman Anne Lloyd has defied a backlash from the building materials group’s shareholders and told major investors that it intends to push ahead with an unpopular $14 billion deal to merge with US-based Azek. Lloyd, who has chaired James Hardie since late 2022 and is based in the US, held a series of calls on Monday with major Australian investors, who had expressed concern that the controversial deal to buy Azek, an outdoor decking and railings group, was value destructive.
Longtime shareholder Greencape exits James Hardie as chairwoman Anne Lloyd tries to calm Australian investors

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Jemima Whyte |Simon Evans

Apr 7, 2025 – 2.53pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? James Hardie shareholders have called for the federal government to intervene and review the sharemarket operator’s decision to grant a waiver that prevented investors in the building materials group from voting on its $14 billion proposed merger with US-based Azek.
Morgan Stanley says James Hardie may need to lift its Azek buyout offer, while anti-asbestos campaigners fret over a shift to the NYSE.

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Jemima Whyte |Simon Evans |Nicola Blackburn

Jemima Whyte, Simon Evans and Nicola BlackburnApr 7, 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? James Hardie chairwoman Anne Lloyd will meet major institutional investors on Monday to discuss a growing backlash among its Australian shareholders, who are angry they won’t get to vote on the building materials group’s $14 billion merger with US-based Azek.
ASX faces ASIC, Reserve Bank blowtorch over December settlement outage

3 weeks ago | afr.com | Jemima Whyte

Mar 28, 2025 – 7.00pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? The country’s sharemarket operator faces an external investigation and stricter oversight as early as Monday as the corporate regulator and central bank step up their inquiries into a major outage last year.
JPMorgan on track to take out first quarter’s ECM dealmaking crown

1 month ago | afr.com | Jemima Whyte

Mar 19, 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? The country’s biggest investment banks say the amount of work they are doing on potential new listing is at its highest in four years despite a volatile sharemarket creating more subdued expectations for floats.
John Sevior returns to funds management as Ellerston Capital advisor

1 month ago | afr.com | Jemima Whyte

Mar 9, 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? John Sevior, the high-profile stockpicker who quit the funds management industry after a three-decade run, is returning to the sector as chairman of a new advisory board for Ashok Jacob’s Ellerston Capital.