The Fin

Chanticleer columnist James Thomson on what the boardroom fight means for AGL Australia and why big companies around the world are watching closely. Background reading: 'Lights would go out' under Cannon-Brookes' 1.5 degree target AGL Energy chairman Patricia McKenzie said the faster closure of coal power plants as demanded by the company’s biggest shareholder Mike Cannon-Brookes is just not possible. Cannon-Brookes’ big win in AGL proxy war puts heat on board Proxy advisers have backed Mike

Senior reporter Jemima Whyte on the audacious rise of Barrenjoey, the first Australian investment bank since Macquarie, why its attracted controversy and what's next as deals stall and the era of cheap money ends. Background reading Barrenjoey costs soar The group said $44.4 million of “establishment costs” were incurred for the year, on top of operating expenses of more than $200 million. How to build an investment bank after a false start The key meeting in the establishment of Barrenjoey – which

Special correspondent Misha Zelinsky talks about what it’s like covering the war on the ground as Ukrainians prepare for their biggest test yet – winter.Background reading: Special delivery: The VC bringing aid to the Ukrainian front line Misha Zelinsky and venture capitalist James Spenceley travel 3000km to deliver ambulances to fighters at the sharp end of Putin’s war. ‘If Putin is looking for capitulation, then the attacks have failed’ After the all-clear was given following the missile attacks

Today in The Fin, The Australian Financial Review's political editor Phillip Coorey on Labor’s “monumental challenges”; energy prices to be a “real killer”; and does Treasurer Jim Chalmers even get along with the PM? Background reading: NDIS under review as it blows out to $50b Floods to push up food prices and worsen deficit, says Jim Chalmers Subscribe to The Australian Financial Review here.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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