Fallen giants

Fallen giants

They say that journalism is the ‘art of turning up too late very quickly’. And so it was that your humble correspondent fortuitously found himself in Canberra for a conference of independent financial advice firms on the very day that the royal commission was finally...
Igniting the ‘ideas boom’

Igniting the ‘ideas boom’

  Six weeks after being made prime minister in what the BBC labelled a dramatic “coup”, Malcolm Turnbull faced the national press pack to unveil his vision to remake Australia’s economy in the post-mining boom era. “I’m here with my good friend and colleague, the...
Lasting legacy

Lasting legacy

In the well-heeled, tree-lined suburbs of Houston, Texas, the legacy of Enron’s monumental fall from grace still looms large. 2016 will mark the 15th anniversary of the energy giant’s shock filing for bankruptcy, but for the Texan business community, the scars are...