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Telco boss immune to Packer charm

CBD The not-as-rich James Packer might be more like his late father Kerry than many think.

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Island dreaming in the courtroom

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CBD The founder of the fallen property group Rubicon and former Allco banana, Gordon Fell, will be wishing he was lying on a beach in his tropical Pacific Islands paradise tomorrow.

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Failure is, as it happens, an option

CBD Financiers can't resist using acronyms to sum up the health, or otherwise, of their respective outfits.

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Now that's a mum and dad investor

CBD It is always handy to have cashed-up parents when you are the chief operating officer of a fledging digital marketing outfit.

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Now this is a seat Nicolaou might win

CBD The Liberal Party candidate who lost the byelection of John Brogden's vacated seat of Pittwater in 2005 and failed to take the electorate of Ryde in the 2003 state election has been given the chance...

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Accountant takes fight to BrisCon

CBD BrisConnections may have thought it had left the melodramas of the past year behind it yesterday, when its underwriters, Macquarie and Deutsche Bank, made up for the $1.

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Pet lovers link arms at the vet clinic

CBD The former Babcock & Brown helmsmen Jim Babcock and Phil Green (aka Babcock & Green) seem to have clinched their biggest deal since the multi-billion dollar implosion of the investment firm.

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ASIC action better late than never

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CBD The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has displayed its lightning fast reflexes and willingness to protect investors by cancelling the financial services licence held by City Pacific,...

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Turf wars over Windsor turf farm

CBD Some of the former executives of MFS Limited (aka Octaviar) appear to have developed a keen interest in the turf sector in the two years since the multi-billion dollar implosion of the Gold Coast...

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Guidance from the grime fighter

CBD One person who does not have to travel far to register a business is the Australian Securities & Investments Commission's head corporate grime fighter, Tony D'Aloisio.

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Cudeco boss gives an exclusive to China

CBD The executive chairman of Cudeco, Wayne McCrae, seems to like disclosing things to the Chinese state media before he tells the Australian Securities Exchange.

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Pepper rumoured to be on the table

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CBD Former chief Babcock & Browner Phil Green and his old work buddy, Trevor Loewensohn, appear to be carrying on their love affair with debt in a new way.

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Capitalists hear some Nobel ideas

CBD The Nobel peace prize recipient and banker to the poor, Muhammad Yunus, offered some ideas that may have shocked some guests at a luncheon in Sydney yesterday.

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Mystery nexus for technocrats

CBD Many investors struggle to comprehend what exactly the technology company Nexbis Limited does, but it has agreed to buy into a company with an even deeper air of mystery about it.

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Australia: a safer place for gougers

CBD It turns out the private equity sector is not so vulturistic when it comes to gouging returns and stripping costs from its Australian investments.

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Window on a Gold Coast finance crash

CBD There is now firm evidence to support the theory that the Gold Coast glass repair industry (aside from corporate undertaking) was one of the few sectors to have benefited from the collapse of the...

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A bet with Sir Dick, but is there a dress?

CBD Former Qantas high-flyer John Borghetti's new role as the chief executive of Virgin Blue may finally give the airline veteran a chance to resurrect his long-abandoned formula four racing career.

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Losses don't take shine off silver lining

CBD Mariner Corp managing director Bill Ireland has not let $122 million of accumulated losses stop him from popping the champagne corks.

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King of Crown keeps cards close

CBD Crown Limited's chief executive, Rowen ''Cool Hand'' Craigie, appears to use his time patrolling casino gambling floors to help fine-tune his poker face.

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Band of brothers short of temper

CBD The British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, and the slightly dated pop sensation Bobby Brown are not the only Browns susceptible to mood swings.