Mark Di Stefano

4 days ago | afr.com | Mark Di Stefano

The first stop of Ed Husic’s retaliation tour took him to ABC’s Insiders on Sunday to blame Richard Marles for his ousting. One normal week of Labor government? It’ll never happen. Surely, the worst bit about Husic’s slur on Marles as a “factional assassin” is the deputy prime minister would have taken this as a compliment. The headkicking that saw Husic and attorney general Mark Dreyfus dumped from the ministry elevated three men.

1 week ago | afr.com | Mark Di Stefano

Some of the most interesting things to come out of financial conferences don’t happen on the stage. In the coffee cart line at Macquarie’s three-day conference, the rumour mill was running about a reshuffle at the country’s premier financial institution. Head of Macquarie Capital for Asia Pacific Tim Joyce had recently told his colleagues that Melbourne journeyman David Mustow would be his new deputy. Loading...

1 week ago | afr.com | Mark Di Stefano

US-based asset and private equity giant KKR cut ties with Malcolm Turnbull after Donald Trump attacked the former Australian prime minister over an interview Turnbull gave criticising the US president for his position on trade and China. Turnbull went on Bloomberg TV in March, criticising the president’s belligerence on trade and said China would “take advantage, massive advantage” of him. Loading...

1 week ago | afr.com | Mark Di Stefano

On the first day of Macquarie’s annual conference, the bank’s head of technology and telco equity research Andrew Gillies introduced the star guest they were “fortunate” to have on the bill. Macquarie’s Andrew Gillies with WiseTech CEO, sorry, executive chairman Richard White. Loading...

1 week ago | afr.com | Mark Di Stefano

Hamish Douglass barging into the 2025 discourse like the Kool Aid man is a fun turn. His torturous exit from Magellan came amid a remarkable multi-year, many-billion dollar decline at the ASX-listed fund manager. But the Maccas-eating planker has returned. He popped up at The Australian bragging about his stake in Guzman y Gomez in February. On Monday, there he was in this masthead talking up his investment in MotorCycle Holdings, the country’s largest motorcycle seller. Loading...