Jemima Whyte

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Canaccord’s Peter Hollick enters stockbroking hall of fame

1 week ago | afr.com | Jemima Whyte

Peter Hollick’s first job was as a Victorian public servant, but he worked out pretty quickly that stockbroking was a better option. Back in the late 1960s, sharing a house with six others in the Melbourne beachside suburb of St Kilda, Hollick recalls coming home from working at the Department of Labour and National Service and chatting to his flatmates. To a young Hollick, his two stockbroker flatmates had far more interesting jobs than his. Loading...
Q&A with Brian Sheahan, Brent Potts, Brett Spork, Harold Shapiro and Danny Dreyfus

1 week ago | afr.com | Jemima Whyte

We speak to five stockbroking legends, all previous inductees into the Australian Stockbrokers’ Foundation’s Hall of Fame, to get their views on current investment opportunities, their best and worst trades and general advice. The awards recognise individuals who have made significant contributions and demonstrated outstanding achievements in the stockbroking industry. Loading...
‘They thought I was a money launderer’: Adara boss’s crazy backstory

1 week ago | afr.com | Jemima Whyte

Skip to navigationSkip to contentSkip to footerHelp using this website - Accessibility statementAudette Exel is already sitting at the back of casual Middle Eastern restaurant Shuk, in the cobbled streets of Sydney’s Rocks district, when I arrive at 12.01pm. We’re meeting on the day Exel is throwing a 10-year celebration for Adara, the advisory firm she founded where some of the nation’s top investment bankers work on behalf of the group and donate their fees to her charities in Uganda and Nepal.
UBS Australia farewells Clinton Wong, a legend of the local investment banking scene

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Jemima Whyte

Clinton Wong, former co-head of UBS Australia’s equities business, is calling time on a near three-decade career in investment banking. Wong plans to retire towards the end of the year to spend more time caring for his parents.
ASIC to investigate super funds over complaint handling ‘blind spot’

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Jemima Whyte

The corporate regulator has warned superannuation fund trustees and executives that it intends to investigate how the country’s biggest retirement savings managers respond to complaints from their members and whether there is a bigger blind spot around those issues that requires action.
GemLife could be first to trial ASIC’s fast-track IPO process

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Jemima Whyte |Joyce Moullakis |Johnny Shapiro

GemLife, the retirement community developer planning on floating with a market capitalisation of nearly $1.6 billion, could be the first company to make use of a new fast-track listing process that the corporate regulator will trial in the hope of attracting more businesses onto the sharemarket. The changes, announced on Tuesday, have been flagged as a modest start to attempts to restart a sluggish listings market. Loading...
David Jones slides into loss as private equity owner works its debt

3 weeks ago | afr.com | Carrie LaFrenz |Jemima Whyte

Jun 5, 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? Anchorage Capital Partners is considering ways of providing financial support to ailing retailer David Jones as the department store slides into a deep loss and warns of challenging conditions. Anchorage acquired David Jones in 2022 from Woolworths Holdings, the South African retailer which also owns Country Road Group.
Barrenjoey appoints former Fortescue CEO Fiona Hick as non-executive director

3 weeks ago | afr.com | Jemima Whyte

Jun 3, 2025 – 12.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Barrenjoey has appointed former Fortescue and Woodside Energy executive Fiona Hick to its board five years since the upstart investment bank launched and lured heavyweight advisors away from rivals.
Chemist Warehouse insiders dump shares worth $4.7b in mass exit

4 weeks ago | afr.com | Johnny Shapiro |Jemima Whyte

One franchisee has sold $650 million worth of Chemist Warehouse shares, another a stake valued at $380 million. Ever since the pharmacy giant’s debut on the ASX through a merger with wholesaler Sigma Healthcare, its biggest shareholders have been making a mint offloading stock.
What’s next for the former Rothschild banker, investor, activist and founder of K Capital?

1 month ago | afr.com | Jemima Whyte

May 26, 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? Stephen Mayne, the high-profile shareholder activist, wants him cloned. Board directors who have been on the receiving end of his – sometimes personal – criticism decline to say anything at all. And others say he’s always been the same old character, spoiling for a fight.