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AIA chief Damien Mu thought he was healthy, until he went for a health check

1 week ago | afr.com | Sally Patten |Lap Phan

Apr 15, 2025 – 5.00amGift this articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? LoginDamien Mu assumed he was healthy. The chief executive of life insurer AIA in Australia ate well and exercised regularly. He doesn’t eat breakfast because he finds he functions better in the mornings without it. But then Mu went for a health check.
Beach Energy CEO Brett Woods on the lessons learnt from choosing the wrong business partner

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Sally Patten |Lap Phan

Apr 8, 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? Earlier in his career, Brett Woods, now chief executive of Adelaide-based oil and gas explorer Beach Energy, was working in Africa where he was trying to secure a licence. He needed a local company to help secure the licence, and that’s where the trouble started. Loading...
Boost Juice founder on her top health hacks and her aversion for VERBS

3 weeks ago | afr.com | Sally Patten |Lap Phan

Apr 1, 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? Boost Juice founder Janine Allis is an early adopter of health hacks. The entrepreneur doesn’t want to live forever, but she was struck a few years ago when she saw an old lady using a walker. Allis’ reaction was, “I do not want to be her.”Loading...
‘We’re going to have to have it’: Trump insists US must own Greenland

4 weeks ago | afr.com | Lap Phan |Jordan Fabian

Mar 27, 2025 – 3.38am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Washington | President Donald Trump stressed his desire for the US to annex Greenland ahead of a contentious visit by his vice president, comments likely to further stoke anger in the Danish territory.
Reeves unveils $28.6b repair job after UK growth downgraded

4 weeks ago | afr.com | Lap Phan |Joe Mayes

Mar 27, 2025 – 3.09am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? London | Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves clawed back £14 billion ($28.6 billion) worth of fiscal room with cuts to welfare and government spending, after the UK’s growth forecast for the current year was cut in half.
Used car refurbisher and dealer Carma hopes to break the IPO drought

4 weeks ago | afr.com | Lap Phan |Johnny Shapiro |Amelia McGuire

Mar 27, 2025 – 12.01am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? For more than a decade, Lachlan Macgregor was a stockpicker, scouring the global equity markets for technology winners on behalf of Platinum Asset Management and Alphinity.
Tax cut bill passes first hurdle, despite Coalition vote against

4 weeks ago | afr.com | Lap Phan |Phillip Coorey

Mar 26, 2025 – 10.30pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has moved to gazump Anthony Albanese’s budget tax cuts on the cusp of a cost-of-living election with a $6 billion pledge to cut the price of petrol by 25¢ a litre for one year.
Contractor Roberts Co owes Victorian trade creditors $50 million

4 weeks ago | afr.com | Lap Phan |Michael Bleby

Mar 26, 2025 – 7.46pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Roberts Co’s Victorian arm went into administration owing more than 100 trade creditors up to $50 million in debts – mostly current progress claims – creditors heard in their first meeting with administrators on Wednesday.
WiseTech Global calls investment banking friends to drum up board candidates

4 weeks ago | afr.com | Lap Phan |Sarah Thompson |Kanika Sood |Emma Rapaport

M&As and capital raises. These are the two things that companies pay investment banks the big bucks for. Then there is an assortment of add-ons, usually thrown in for free in the hopes of securing future work. Richard White needs more board directors. Dominic LorrimerLoading... Sarah Thompson has co-edited Street Talk since 2009, specialising in private equity, investment banking, M&A and equity capital markets stories.
Eyes on COG Financial’s register after Tony Robinson storms the board

4 weeks ago | afr.com | Lap Phan |Sarah Thompson |Kanika Sood |Emma Rapaport

Grab the popcorn, things are about to get interesting at COG Financial Services, a sleepy little roll-up of broking, leasing and lending businesses capitalised at $189 million on the ASX. Tony Robinson when he was PSC’s CEO. Jessica ShapiroLoading... Sarah Thompson has co-edited Street Talk since 2009, specialising in private equity, investment banking, M&A and equity capital markets stories. Prior to that, she spent 10 years in London as a markets and M&A reporter at Bloomberg and Dow Jones.