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CFO helps CSL nail record $6.3b raise in 24 hours
Joy Linton has helped pull off Australia’s largest primary equity raise, taking the biotech giant a step closer to completing its $16.4 billion buyout of Vifor Pharma.
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- Carrie LaFrenz
- On-demand Video
- AFR Live
Finance chiefs on delivering a business-led recovery
Driving business value now and for a post-pandemic economy are some of the themes at the third Financial Review CFO Live summit.
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
The big worry facing Australia’s bullish CFOs
Australia’s chief financial officers are readying for a bumper 2022. But skills shortages, particularly for tech talent, have emerged as a high hurdle.
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- James Thomson
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Bullish CFOs expose Australia’s technology worker shortage
Whether Australia, amid the enormous global growth of the digital economy, is underdeveloping and misallocating its human capital is the question raised by the CFO Live event.
- The AFR View
Tech worker shortage a disruptive force for growth plans: CFO
Leading executives say the most damaging phases of the pandemic are over, but warn a crippling technology skills shortfall threatens to thwart their ambitions.
- Michael Read, Lucas Baird and James Eyers
December 2021
Inflation, interest rates, infection a curb on returns in 2022: UBS
Richard Sleijpen, boss of capital markets for UBS Australasia, says a repeat of the $350 billion M&A boom in 2021 is unlikely next year.
- Simon Evans
Why staff shortages at EY and PwC have become Westpac’s problem
Finance chiefs, who often hunt in consulting firms for digital workers, called for international borders to reopen to skilled migrants to relieve staffing pressures.
- James Eyers
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Executives hope ‘anchor days’ will revive office culture
A more “deliberate and targeted” approach to flexible work planning is needed to ensure workplace culture can continue to thrive post-pandemic, CFOs say.
- Lucas Baird
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Why investors are more uncertain about 2022
UBS deal maker Richard Sleijpen told CFO Live the three Rs of 2021 - rotation, reflation and recovery - have given way to a different picture dominated by three Is - inflation, interest rates and infection.
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- James Thomson
ASIC raises the heat on greenwashing IPO hopefuls
As part of its increased surveillance of climate-related disclosures and net zero targets, ASIC wants listing candidates to go from big statements to actual plans.
- Ayesha de Kretser and Simon Evans
The CFO solutions to get productivity and economic growth going
Politicians should invest in regional transport, housing and internet infrastructure, to help rural towns manage the influx of city escapees, executives say.
- Michael Read
BHP asset sales could help it pay higher dividends: analysts
Analysts say BHP could afford to raise its payout ratio once it has divested its oil, gas and coal assets.
- Peter Ker
Walking the ESG walk: GPT, Oz Minerals, Aurizon make early strides
Green issues have nudged aside financial issues and moved from the fringe to front and centre of discussions between listed companies and investors.
- Ben Potter
‘Take stock’ on excess JobKeeper payments: Tax Office
ATO second commissioner Jeremy Hirschhorn says firms with rebounding turnover should consider repaying funds received in the $90 billion scheme
- Tom McIlroy
Birmingham warns of fiscal policy ‘tightrope’
The Morrison government says fiscal strategy will move to budget repair after the election and trying to pay down debt and deficit while keeping the economy growing will be akin to walking a tightrope.
- Phillip Coorey
November 2021
Four leading female CFOs reveal their road to the top finance job
There is no typical career path to becoming a chief financial officer. Just ask Leah Weckert from Coles, who has not even studied accounting.
- Sally Patten
The moment UBS showed up the sceptics
UBS head of global capital markets Richard Sleijpen says this year has been a record for $1 billion IPOs.
- Jemima Whyte
August 2021
October 2020
How to get more women into the C-suite
The best candidate for chief executive or chief financial officer could be right under the board's noses. Here's why companies should promote from within.
- Natasha Boddy
UBS backs itself as companies eye M&A opportunities
Swiss bank UBS will still attract the best people despite a slew of departures to rivals, according to global M&A co-head Greg Peirce.
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- Tim Boyd
- Opinion
- The AFR View
CFOs to lead on investment opportunities
The challenge for executives in charge of company finances is to provide the leadership needed to seize the opportunities for investment emerging in the post-COVID world.
- The AFR View
US investors key to Afterpay's mega-valuation
Afterpay's new CFO says growing the usage from customers is more important for growth than new customers.
- Yolanda Redrup
Pandemic a preview for climate chaos: Lendlease CFO
Lendlease chief financial officer Tarun Gupta says the economic disruption caused by the global pandemic is a taste of what extreme climate change could bring.
- James Fernyhough
GPT won't stand for tenants that don't want to pay rent
GPT Group finance chief Anastasia Clarke says it's crucial for retailers that shopping centres remain open during the Christmas period.
- Jonathan Shapiro
NBN gives 'virtually zero' thought to 5G threat
NBN Co's chief financial officer Philip Knox says he and his fellow executives are not concerned about the threat 5G poses to his company's business model.
- James Fernyhough
