Welcome to FinFest Week 2026, proudly brought to you by Betashares. Over the coming week we’re releasing 10 of our favourite sessions, recorded live at FinFest, Australia’s largest finance festival.
Our first session is Companies Behaving Badly with Joe Aston, founder of Rampart, and author of AFR’s Rear Window column for 12 years. Bryce & Ren sat down with Joe to hear the stories behind some of Australia’s biggest corporate dramas, and what investors can learn from them.
Missed a session on the day? We’re getting all 43 FinFest sessions ready to release on our FinFest Youtube channel by 30 November.
Want to be there next year? Join the FinFest 2027 waitlist here.
A big thank you to all of our FinFest partners, including this session’s stage sponsor, Betashares.
00:00 Welcome to FinFest Week 2026
03:39 Meet Joe Aston: The journalist Australian CEOs fear
06:31 Firmus: What went wrong with the IPO?
08:33 NextDC: Red flags in Australia's data centre boom
10:28 QANTAS, Alan Joyce and the turnaround
14:58 The psychology of power: Why CEOs lose touch with reality
17:52 The rise of independent media and Joe's move to Rampart
21:10 How investors can spot red flags in CEOs and companies
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