Jun 30, 2026 – 12.51pmCSL Limited, usually the bluest of blue-chip stocks on the ASX, has incinerated nearly $56 billion of its sharemarket value in the last 12 months.CSL chairman Brian McNamee and interim chief executive Gordon Naylor. Sarah Thompson has co-edited Street Talk since 2009, specialising in private equity, investment banking, M&A and equity capital markets stories. Prior to that, she spent 10 years in London as a markets and M&A reporter at Bloomberg and Dow Jones.Kanika Sood is a journalist based in Sydney who writes for the Street Talk column.Emma Rapaport is a co-editor of the Street Talk column. Prior to that, she was a markets reporter at The Australian Financial Review.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber?
CSL brings in headhunters to find new CEO after horror year
Naylor himself does not have his hat in the ring for the permanent CEO role but is tipped to succeed McNamee as CSL’s chairman next year.
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