McGrath ninepins follow float shocker

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From the AFR today comes John McGrath as he steps down as CEO:

…Mr McGrath has also taken a big pay cut. His annual remuneration in 2016 is $327,415, down 56 per cent from the $744,765 earned in 2015…Long-standing chief operating officer Geoff Lucas left the business in August while head of property management Maria Carlino left in March….Also leaving is chairman David Mackay, after just over a year in the role.

…”I forecast 6-8 per cent growth in Sydney house prices this year. We’ve seen the majority of that already so I see very little increase in prices going forward,” he said.

Mr McGrath estimated Chinese buyers numbers were down by half compared with a year ago.

Shareholders are a bitch!

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.