Mark Pownall

Do we need to start requiring leaders to be more open about their personal circumstances?

Perth boutique brokerage Mac Equity Partners has launched a digital fund-raising platform for sophisticated investors.

Mark Pownall and Jack McGinn discuss WA innovators looking to use seaweed to reduce methane emissions.

Local scientists have won significant funding from the US military because its veterans are more likely to suffer from a debilitating motor neurone disease they are researching.

Two WA companies have taken different approaches to controlling methane emissions from cattle.

In this podcast Mark Beyer and Mark Pownall discuss Woodside boss Meg O'Neill, house prices, interest rates, Geraldton hydrogen and more.

West Perth-based fund manager NWQ Capital Management has been suspended by the financial services watchdog from providing financial services or raising money for two of its funds.

The $12 million sale of a beachfront property at Siesta Park on Geographe Bay shows the holiday region remains a prize destination for the conversion of equity fortunes into land.

In this podcast Mark Beyer and Mark Pownall discuss EY, Mainsheet, FMG, Hancock vs Wright, ATCO and inflation.

Data centre developer GreenSquareDC is looking at building its own renewable energy farm in the Wheatbelt as it presses on with its Belmont project, naming Multiplex as preferred contractor.

Senior journalists Mark Pownall and Jack McGinn discuss the state of play for boutique fund managers dealing in equities in Western Australia.

Investors get the pick of about 50 WA-based funds, which have mostly enjoyed a better year.

WA’s startup ecosystem is growing, as a recent series of events for international visitors hosted in Perth attests.

A skin cancer test has entered the clinical trial phase in Karratha as part of a global search for innovations to fix acute health issues in the Pilbara.

In this podcast Mark Pownall and Mark Beyer discuss mining cost challenges at IGO, BHP and Northern Star, MinRes China pullout, cultural heritage, Comm Games, gold miners, fund managers, indigenous business, Cottesloe development and George Kailis.

Did Victoria just exhaust itself? Has the nation’s so-called sporting capital burned itself out?

Mark Pownall and Jack McGinn discuss succession plans at a successful arboriculture business.

In this podcast Mark Pownall and Mark Beyer discuss Forrest separation implications, Kerry Stokes’ laneway, Ben Wyatt, Mark Hatfield, the Ritz Carlton, Chellingworth and Moody’s.

A transition to the next generation involves more than just new management.

The Forrests have played down the impact of their separation on the companies in their domain but a growing body of research suggests otherwise.

Our settings are wrong and complacency has become the issue.

Neighbours are alarmed about a proposal to extract gravel at a picturesque vineyard and function venue in the South West.

In this podcast Mark Beyer and Mark Pownall discuss Scyne Advisory, Aravina Estate, Primero and Wood wins, Centurion expands, house prices, interest rates, Hancock, Arbor Centre, architects and corporate finance.

Indonesia’s second richest person has added Margaret River’s Aravina Estate to a growing local leisure and hospitality portfolio.

Perth entrepreneur Steve Tobin has sold his prized Aravina Estate six years after he first put it on the market.

Mark Pownall and Jack McGinn discuss interesting developments in mineral exploration in the state's South West.

Demand for lithium is driving resources companies into unexplored territory.

Linear Clinical Research is on track to double capacity with the completion of a $7 million expansion at the QEII Medical Centre.

Jemma Iles appointment as CEO of healthcare software group Olinqua breaks a number of moulds in the corporate world of technology commercialisation.

The Committee for Perth has hung out the ‘under new management’ sign and is now seeking the kind of strategic reset that occurs naturally from a changing of the guard.

Mark Pownall and Jack McGinn discuss software innovation in Perth’s regtech space.

Woodside spent $18 million on property near Lancelin last month, adding to 20,000 hectares landbanked in Western Australia for carbon abatement.