Finance and markets
Atlas chair Debbie Goodin said she was blindsided by IFM as it made its takeover approach, but remains open to an improved bid.
Dom Reardon thinks batteries can finally deliver small businesses the cheap power they miss out on.
CEO Jason Boyes told Capital Brief there’s no point in committing capital to smaller companies in its portfolio when the data centre outlook looks so rosy.
The three infrastructure asset managers have been actively buying Australian telco infrastructure in recent years with superannuation funds also in close orbit.
The AI factory builder was expected to list on the ASX in June. Then September. Now, early investors are resigned to the risk it is pushed back even further.
It echoes similar moves by Westpac and Macquarie, with CBA and ANZ still reviewing their policies in the wake of the government’s negative gearing ban.
The retail bank’s Anthropic punt has given it a front-row seat in AI, and an investment record to make the Silver Donut envious.
The Sydney firm will open a US-based research institute and seek to make five to 10 business investments in the untapped peri- and post-menopause healthcare market.
Small rivals fear they will be squeezed out of regional markets by the same big institutions which have abandoned them.
Telstra’s longest serving CEO has arrived as Sharon AI’s chair with a stamp of approval, shrugging off criticisms about the firm in an interview with Capital Brief.
