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The Financial Review’s reputation for news-breaking, agenda-setting and authoritative analysis finds new expression in AFR Live, a series of premium, independent and hard-hitting business events.

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Telstra’s chief financial officer Michael Ackland, Mirvac chief financial officer Courtenay Smith and Challenger CEO Nick Hamilton at the AFR’s CFO Live summit on Tuesday.

Business says Trump’s return turns up competition for investment

Executives from Telstra, QBE, Challenger and Mirvac have warned that the US and even Britain risk pulling away from Australia by cutting red tape.

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  • Jonathan Shapiro
NAB chief financial officer Nathan Goonan appearing virtually at the CFO Live summit on Tuesday.

NAB executive warns of ‘elusive’ productivity gains in age of AI

Finance executives have been circumspect about the transformative power of the new technology, suggesting return on investment should be the focus.

  • James Eyers
The group chief financial officer of Ramsay Health Care, Martyn Roberts.

Don’t dump corporate climate targets because of Trump, CFOs say

Big business is locked in to its decarbonisation path given commitments made in other countries, and to investors, senior executives said.

  • Amelia McGuire

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November

Gary Weiss has five decades in Australian capital markets.

Meet corporate Australia’s top bulldust detector

With nearly five decades of experience in the markets, Gary Weiss has seen it all. Here’s how he spots corporate BS, and his No. 1 rule as a director.

  • James Thomson
NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey on Tuesday.

NSW braces for Trump trade turbulence and bond market shocks

The state’s treasurer has warned an erosion in free trade could make Australians poorer, as the incoming administration weighs imposing costly tariffs.

  • Michael Read
Telstra chief financial officer Michael Ackland says businesses are stuck with a difficult dilemma.

This is why Australia is stuck in a rut

Low investment and productivity growth has left the country’s economy in the doldrums. The short-term challenges are large, but we can’t forget the long term.

  • James Thomson
The ASX 200 bank index has surged nearly 10 per cent this year.

Banking’s next gen

Bank leaders face succession as shares peak, leaving newcomers to find growth in a challenging landscape

Australia won’t be able to get wind turbines to renewable energy zones quickly unless it builds more roads and bridges.

‘Maybe we can use Zeppelins’: Australia’s missing infrastructure links

Solar panels and wind turbines crucial to Australia’s energy transition are piling up at a key port because the nation does not have the infrastructure to move them.

  • Jenny Wiggins
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NextDC CEO Craig Scroggie (r) talks to AFR technology editor Paul Smith in Sydney.

Nuclear ban holds Australia back from data centre opportunity

Craig Scroggie says without a ‘logical conversation’ on nuclear, Australia may miss an opportunity to grab an outsized chunk of the booming data centre industry.

  • Angela Macdonald-Smith
Transurban boss Michelle Jablko

‘We didn’t set the tolls’: Transurban pitches new pricing plan

Company boss Michelle Jablko says NSW can’t afford to build roads without private money and is looking at charging corridors according to congestion levels.

  • Jenny Wiggins
Joanne Spillane, Macquarie Group’s global head of private capital markets (centre), flanked by KKR APAC Infrastructure MD Andrew Jennings (l) and Clayton Utz corporate partner Samy Mansour (r).

Trump win could be good news for Australian energy transition

Investment bankers hope an expected pullback in Inflation Reduction Act support for green investments under the new Trump administration could help Australia.

  • Angela Macdonald-Smith
Transurban CEO Michelle Jablko says that assest privatisations reflect governemnt priorities at the time.

Inflation shadow falls over privatised infrastructure model

The political fallout from privatisation colliding with a temporary cost of living crisis could end up gumming up the pipeline of public works in the longer run.

  • The AFR View
Vesna Poljak AFR companies editor with Sydney Airport boss Scott Charlton and Qantas head of international and freight Cam Wallace on Monday.

Qantas claims network advantage will outgun bulked up Qatar

Qantas international boss Cam Wallace says the wet leasing arrangement that facilitates the partnership between Virgin and Qatar cannot be indefinite.

  • Ayesha de Kretser and Jenny Wiggins
Bridget McKenzie,

Public support for migration has ‘snapped’: Coalition

The cost-of-living crisis and the post-pandemic surge in arrivals has broken the social compact on migration, says Coalition frontbencher Bridget McKenzie.

  • Phillip Coorey and Rohan Sullivan
Western Harbour Tunnel is under construction and won’t be privatised

Transurban tolls hit NSW roadblock

Transurban and the NSW government are at loggerheads over how to reduce the long-term costs to taxpayers and motorists from Sydney’s sprawling toll road network.

  • Jennifer Hewett
Andrew Jennings, Managing Director - APAC Infrastructure, KKR, speaks on the Panel Infrastructure Investment - how to build returns amid global uncertainty at the Sydney Infrastructure Summit on November 11, 202

Road toll fight shows risk of contract changes a reality for investors

The threat of changes by the NSW government to toll-road concessions is a “reality” for asset owners, but it may erode confidence in Australian assets.

  • Jonathan Shapiro
Businesses can rack up millions of dollars in tolls annually moving goods around Sydney

One business is paying $7.4m in Sydney road tolls

Data compiled by the NSW government shows the high cost of tolls for companies as the state pushes ahead with new laws to monitor the prices motorists are being charged.

  • Jenny Wiggins
The Port of Newcastle wants to diversify away from coal exports and build a container terminal.

Port of Newcastle’s container terminal pitch tempts foreign investors

The world’s biggest coal export hub has been approached by big investors who want to help fund an expansion that is expected to cost well above $2.5 billion.

  • Jenny Wiggins
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Sydney Metro boss Peter Regan was more into finance than trains as a child.

Sydney Metro’s boss learnt from London’s ‘failed experiment’

Peter Regan found out the hard way how to strike a good public-private partnership for transport.

  • Jenny Wiggins
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The annual AFR Business Summit will discuss the strategies to navigate the increasingly complex economic and political factors shaping Australia’s future.

October

Wayne Swan says the super sector’s infrastructure may not be fit for purpose.

Swan accuses Cbus critics of ‘raw politics’ and ‘deliberate damage’

The former treasurer said industry funds were under attack from critics jealous of their success.

  • Hannah Wootton
Super funds need to speak to young people where they are.

Super funds urged to move on from ‘suboptimal’ apps and get on Reddit

If they want to reach young people, superannuation funds need to talk to them where they are, technology experts say.

  • Amelia McGuire
Superannuation reporter Hannah Wootton and Australian Super chief investment officer and deputy CEO Mark Delaney.

‘It burns’: AusSuper CIO tormented by $1.1b private equity fail

Mark Delaney spoke candidly about having to write off that sum in equity and loans tied to an American online education start-up.

  • Jonathan Shapiro