James Kirby
speaker
10,396 appearances
44 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 3d ago
James Kirby’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 44 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 9.
Appearances
And equity trustees is under a double takeover bid.
voice-verified
That is, there are two competing groups bidding for it.
voice-verified
If the two takeovers go ahead, which is extremely likely as we speak, the entire charity trustee operations in Australia, seven billion dollars of charity, money aimed for charities is gonna be whipped up by private equity groups.
voice-verified
Do you think there's a building campaign and you're a key part of that is to stop this, to get the government to intervene and review at least and put conditions on it.
voice-verified
That that's on Dan Molino's desk.
voice-verified
He's the assistant treasurer, he's the key player here.
voice-verified
Would it happen?
voice-verified
They have no voice
voice-verified
Which is why we need
voice-verified
Yeah.
voice-verified
Yeah, I wonder.
voice-verified
No one ever when no these are the sort of kind of all intended consequences.
voice-verified
If you said fifty years ago, look, there's some things you shouldn't do, because private equity groups could take over this money, there's no way they would have signed it off.
voice-verified
Any government would have signed it off.
voice-verified
But see, here we are.
voice-verified
It'll be really interesting to see if there is a move on that.
voice-verified
I think the fact that Perpetual was under takeover bid was of interest, but
voice-verified
The fact that there's now equity trustees, so the two of them the entire sector could be just whipped away into private equity.
voice-verified
What else are they gonna do?
voice-verified
Priv they're gonna private equity, which is cut to the event.
voice-verified
Showing 981–1000 of 10,396 · page 50 of 520
← Previous
Next →