GPT won't accept tenants refusing to pay rent

The chief financial officer of GPT Group Anastasia Clarke told The Australian Financial Review CFO Live event that the landlord had recognised the property landscape had changed as a result of the pandemic, and was prepared to support tenants.

Ramsay Health Care CFO Martyn Roberts, GPT CFO Anastasia Clarke and CFO of Origin Energy Lawrie Tremaine during The Australian Financial Review CFO Live event. Louie Douvis.

The climate change message from business is becoming more confident and increasingly different in tone from Canberra's message.

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. .

Lendlease chief financial officer Tarun Gupta says the economic disruption caused by the global pandemic is a preview of what extreme climate change could bring, reports James Fernyhough.

Speaking at The Australian Financial Review's CFO Live event on Thursday, Mr Gupta said before the pandemic hit, the construction giant had been modelling the effects of extreme climate change in four different scenarios.

WiseTech Global CFO Andrew Cartledge had some words of advice for companies that find themselves under attack from short sellers (like SEEK, which on Thursday was hit with a claim from short seller Blue Orca that it’s China business was full of fake job ads) at The Financial Review’s CFO Live event.

Andrew Cartledge, CFO, WiseTech Global, at the Financial Review CFO Live Summit 2020 LOUIE DOUVIS.

QBE Group chief financial officer Inder Singh says the cyber security industry were right to be critical of insurers in the past, but says the sector is “growing up” and ready to have a mature conversation around cyber insurance

“We probably rightfully so have come under criticism in the last few years for being a bit narrow around our thinking,” Mr Singh said

Mr Singh said cyber security had been a big stressor for the insurer in the last few years and it had made large investments into building world-class security facilities

The climate change message from business is becoming more confident and increasingly different in tone from Canberra's message

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. 

California-based private equity and credit investment giant Ares Management is in talks to buy Australian wealth manager AMP Ltd.