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The Australian Financial Review, 15 Aug 2026

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The Australian Financial Review is the essential daily read for executive decision makers, sophisticated investors and those who promote national prosperity. It has become a national institution, widely regarded as Australia’s premium business, finance and political publication and recognised for its news-breaking, agenda-setting and authoritative journalism.

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Article‘Part­ner lies’ in KPMG cover-up

The KPMG law­yer tasked with first invest­ig­at­ing claims the firm was using con­fid­en­tial cli­ent files to win con­tracts accused part­ners of mis­lead­ing him and ham­per­ing his work as they sought to cover up their wrong­do­ing. The firm’s...

‘Part­ner lies’ in KPMG cover-up

Article‘IT WAS WILD’

Jon Adgemis, Bondi’s most afflu­ent bank­rupt and Aus­tralia’s biggest since Alan Bond, wanted his fin­an­cial meth­ods kept secret. Then his money man hit the stand ... Jon Adgemis, Aus­tralia’s biggest bank­rupt since Alan Bond, is fight­ing to keep...

‘IT WAS WILD’

ArticleBig back­ers slash $10b off Canva’s value

Canva and two longest-stand­ing Aus­tralian back­ers have wiped $US7.1 bil­lion ($10 bil­lion) from the design soft­ware giant’s valu­ation as it struggles in the AI era. The down­grades from Black­bird Ven­tures and Air­tree are sur­passed by an...

Big back­ers slash $10b off Canva’s value

ArticleThe last gad­fly

The first time Stephen Mayne stops talk­ing is just before he starts to cry. We’re at the RACV Club on Mel­bourne’s Bourke Street on a chilly Thursday in July. Almost seven years ago, his 50th birth­day lunch took place in the wood-pan­elled private...

The last gad­fly

Article30-year les­son

Two import­ant obser­va­tions emerge from 30 years of invest­ment mar­ket data. First, US stocks have over­whelm­ingly dom­in­ated global returns and, second, long-term investors may be more skewed to growth assets than they ori­gin­ally inten­ded. As...

30-year les­son

ArticleHome to roost

On May 30, 1990, one year into a severe prop­erty mar­ket cor­rec­tion brought on by the unwind­ing of a credit boom, The Aus­tralian Fin­an­cial Review ran a story under the head­line: Prop­erty Crisis Worse than The Crash of ’74. Journ­al­ist Pam...

Home to roost