Todd Sampson joins the board of Qantas: Investors Shudder

Really Qantas? Another high profile director? And the Gruen transfer himself! Not sure that this is a good idea based on the performance of Fairfax media since Todd joined that board in late May 2014. Let me refresh your memory...a 14% drop in value compared to the ASX200. Co-incidence? Could be. Still, be interesting to see how Todd goes with this one. Hopefully better (or at least that will be what the Qantas shareholders will be hoping)








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