BusinessDesk has launched The Fall of the House of Du Val, a five-part investigative series looking into the $268 million failure, the group’s marketing of high-risk investments to ordinary mums and dads, and what we can learn from it. BusinessDesk’s Maria Slade breaks down how Du Val caught her attention on Herald Now, when she noticed Du Val and other property investment companies made the most of an exclusion in wholesale investment law that allowed them to offer products to ‘eligible investo

There's a new peace plan between Ukraine and Russia that's been developed by a collaboration between Steve Witkoff and Russia's head of their sovereign wealth fund. So it wasn't actually developed with like the Ukrainians or the Europeans at the negotiating table. So I thought it would be interesting to look at what's in it and to basically learn together about it. It does look like there are a lot of concessions in the deal that Ukraine would have to make. Some people even said that this was a