June 2014: Investor Mark Carnegie has warned the boards of Washington H Soul Pattinson and Brickworks the push to dismantle the cross-shareholdings won't go away when his agreement with Perpetual expires at the year's end, in his first interview since lodging an explosive cross-claim in the Federal Court.

"Our involvement is a sideshow," Mr Carnegie told the Financial Review Sunday program. "Perpetual have been a shareholder in this company for nearly two decades. They are the most significant shareholder. They have had proposals which have been brought to them by other people. They have had arrangements with other people. They want this situation to stop. They will continue to pursue."

June 2014: Small companies should be allowed to raise capital in the same way websites such as Kickstarter encourage consumers to commit funding to new products, qualifying them to become share­holders in the company, according to a ­government review.

Investors and start-ups said the scheme would close a funding gap for start-ups seeking between $1 million and $3 million to launch their product or idea. But they warned the move would need caution, to avoid start-ups becoming inundated with thousands of new shareholders.

June 2015: Investors John Singleton, Gerry Harvey and Mark Carnegie have branched out of pubs with an $80 million deal to buy the Entertainment Quarter at Moore Park.

Mr Harvey told BusinessDay that the potential for redevelopment was "endless".

The Pacific Marina's pair are perusing tourism assets "priced for extinction", writes Matthew Cranston.

Sydney solicitor Andrew Robinson and venture capitalist Mark Carnegie felt their joint venture Pacific Marinas was like the castaway Robinson Crusoe when it was first launched over a year ago.