Business
Market movers
Watchdog sues AustralianSuper over 90,000 duplicate accounts
ASIC has taken the country’s biggest super fund to court for failing to merge duplicate accounts, which cost members about $69 million.
- by Millie Muroi
Updated
World markets
ASX falls for fourth-straight day as miners, consumer stocks weigh
- by Millie Muroi
Currency
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Companies
An apartment tower paying tribute to city’s past
Mixed-use development Escala was conceived to pick up on some of the finer architectural grain in historic areas, such as Flinders Lane.
- by Stephen Crafti
Opening auction bid leaves other buyers in dust
Industry sources report Michael Spektor was the winning bidder in the sale of 736-740 Glenferrie Road, a double-storey shop within spitting distance of two Chemist Warehouse outlets.
- by Nicole Lindsay
Opinion
Privatisation
Joyce did what’s expected of any private company’s CEO. That’s the problem
- by Peter Hartcher
Opinion
Web culture
They love tech. They have money. So why does Big Tech ignore old people?
- by Farhad Manjoo
Markets
Updated
World markets
ASX falls for fourth-straight day as miners, consumer stocks weigh
- by Millie Muroi
The economy
Opinion & Perspectives
iPods, podcasts and Pod People: Progress shapes our life, and the lexicon
New forms of work demand new words. And when jobs become obsolete or rare, their descriptions fall out of the lexicon.
Jim Bright
Joyce did what’s expected of any private company’s CEO. That’s the problem
The Spirit of Australia, by government decree, was profit maximisation. Joyce was acting within that spirit.
Peter Hartcher
Political and international editor
They love tech. They have money. So why does Big Tech ignore old people?
The tech giants claiming to invent the future are stuck in the past, their views of older customers hopelessly misaligned with facts, business logic and demographic trends.
Farhad Manjoo
Banking & finance
Opinion
Big four
Size matters, even if Australian banks are no longer at peak profitability
- by Millie Muroi
‘Two-speed economy’: Bank bosses flag consumer weakness
- by Millie Muroi and Sarah Danckert
Entrepreneurship
Investors feel the burn as F45 booted from New York Stock Exchange
Investors, some of whom paid $US16 per share in the July 2021 public float on the New York Stock Exchange, watched the stock hit a record low of just US7.26¢ last week.
- by Colin Kruger
The Silicon Valley elite who want to build a city from scratch
A mysterious company has spent $1.3 billion in an effort to buy thousands of acres in San Francisco, The people behind the deals are said to be a who’s who of the tech industry.
- by Conor Dougherty and Erin Griffith
Media
Opinion
Mergers & acquisitions
Trump’s $2 billion deal is facing another D-Day
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Workplace
Analysis
The lowdown
Collaborate, or compete? The hidden agenda of returning to the office
- by Andrew Wait and Vladimir Smirnov
