Productivity Commission draft clamps down on executive salaries
Wednesday, 30 September 2009
Company executives and key management personnel should face regulations that would give shareholders power to reject a board if a remuneration policy is voted against at two successive meetings, the Productivity Commission has recommended.  ...

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Directors of collapsed Babcock & Brown set to be dragged before public examinations
Monday, 21 September 2009
The liquidators of collapsed financial services company Babcock & Brown say they have been overwhelmed by the support from disgruntled creditors who have stumped up more than $300,000 to fund public examinations of the directors of the failed company.  ...

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Rich 200 loses $25 billion
Wednesday, 27 May 2009
Australia's richest men and women have lost a collective $25 billion due to the global financial crisis, amounting to the largest drop in wealth in BRW's Rich 200's 26-year history.  ...

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Rich list 2009: A sneak peek
Monday, 25 May 2009
The big day for wealth watchers is almost here. On Thursday, BRW magazine will release its annual Rich 200 edition, which promises to be one of most fascinating in years.  ...

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Boardroom bounce-backs
Monday, 30 March 2009
The release of BRW's Executive Rich List last week has provided more evidence of the "great wealth destruction".  ...

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Australia's richest executives lose $24 billion in 12 months
Thursday, 26 March 2009
The total wealth held by Australia's richest 200 executives has been smashed by the global financial crisis, dropping from $44 billion to $20.3 billion according to BRW magazine's executive rich list.     ...

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Babcock & Brown forced into administration
Friday, 13 March 2009
Finance and investment giant Babcock & Brown has been forced into voluntary administration after creditors of the company in New Zealand voted to reject a plan to restructure the company's debt.  ...

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How to pick the best investment adviser
Tuesday, 17 February 2009
Storm Financial’s formula for investment success was fundamentally flawed, and should have sent warning signs to investors with even minimal investment skills. MICHAEL LAURENCE asks long-time investor specialists how to identify investment advisers that should ...

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The year the rich would rather forget
Friday, 12 December 2008
The year 2008 may well go down in history as the year Australia’s richest investors lost their mojo. JAMES THOMSON tracks the downward spiral, and measures the rich top 30’s rate of leakage. ...

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The ugly end of our great debt delusion: Kohler
Friday, 21 November 2008
The problem with debt is that it makes you feel richer than you really are.  ...

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Rupert Murdoch tops list of highest paid executives, but pay will fall
Tuesday, 11 November 2008
Increasing shareholder anger and the credit crunch have all but halted growth in executive pay, according to a new survey of Australia’s highest-paid managers.  ...

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Babcock & Brown leaders’ disgraceful exit: Kohler
Friday, 22 August 2008
The way that Jim Babcock and Phil Green were seen off by their colleagues at Babcock & Brown yesterday with congratulations and thanks was simply nauseating. ...

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Babcock & Brown chair and CEO to step down as profit slumps: Economy roundup
Thursday, 21 August 2008
Babcock & Brown chief executive Phil Green and chairman Jim Babcock have announced they will step down as the company revealed profit had fallen 24% in the six months to 30 June to $150.9 million. ...

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How Babcock & Brown unravelled: Kohler
Wednesday, 20 August 2008
There is so much wrong with Babcock & Brown it is hard to know where to start. ...

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Babcock’s future in the balance: Kohler
Monday, 16 June 2008
Phil Green and the team at Babcock & Brown would have been going through the first phase of grief over the weekend; shock, numbness, disbelief. The sudden death of so much wealth last week would have left all concerned hollow-eyed, staring at walls, unable ...

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How debt is dragging Babcock & Brown down: Kohler
Friday, 13 June 2008
The extraordinary empire built by the gang at Babcock & Brown has exactly the same problem as that of Christopher Skase, Robert Holmes à Court, John Spalvins and just about every other corporate empire-builder that eventually went bust. Every layer of ...

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Australia’s richest executives
Thursday, 27 March 2008
 Australian mining chiefs dominate the second annual BRW Executive Rich list, which ranks the 200 wealthiest managers by shareholding value. The commodities boom has pushed the number of mining bosses on the list to 71, up from 39 a year ago. But the heads ...

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Australia’s highest-paid CEOs
Tuesday, 13 November 2007
The chief executives of the 300 largest Australian sharemarket-listed companies raked in an average of 28% more in salary and bonuses in 2006-07 compared to the previous year, according to the Australian Financial Review’s latest study of executive pay packets. ...

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