This Month
How Sam Kennard built a $2.6b empire
The influential business figure always had ambition to work and grow the family company. But he didn’t expect his dad to give him total control when he was just 24 years of age.
- Julie-anne Sprague
Paul Little and Jane Hansen open State Library’s Indigenous Gallery
The philanthropic couple have given $1.25 million to establish the library’s new showcase for Indigenous art.
- Updated
- Myriam Robin
Chemist Warehouse duo to climb Rich List after Sigma deal
Documents associated with the merger, which will create a retail giant, show for the first time the precise shareholdings of Jack Gance and Mario Verrocchi.
- Michael Bailey
How Cathie Reid went from typing class to a $550m fortune
The Rich Lister originally wanted to be a typist. Instead, she became a pharmacist before she spotted a gap in the market and become an entrepreneur alongside husband Stuart Giles.
- Julie-anne Sprague
- Opinion
- Leadership lessons
Why Ray Dalio should not be venerated
He created the world’s biggest hedge fund at Bridgewater Associates. But the business operated a cult-like psychodrama under his leadership.
- Aaron Patrick
November
Mark Carnegie reveals the tax tourist within
The philanthropist, who reckons the rich should pay more tax, has taken his ex-wife to court to take advantage of a Kiwi tax holiday.
- Myriam Robin
- Exclusive
- Philanthropy
Rich List family’s $100m gift to change lives via immunology research
The Snow family is already one of Australia’s top philanthropists and it is making another big donation to transform global understanding of the immune system and autoimmune diseases.
- Julie Hare
Why this Young Rich Lister shuns Australian investors
“When you find something you really enjoy, sleeping really just gets in the way,” says Kevin Gosschalk, the Young Rich Lister behind Arkose Labs.
- Julie-anne Sprague
How Mark Carnegie thumb-sucked his way off the Rich List
The entrepreneur and corporate adviser has had plenty of woulda, shoulda, coulda moments. One of them cost him about $100 million.
- Julie-anne Sprague
Bizoids and the beautiful: Inside the Birdcage at Derby Day 2023
It may have lacked the star wattage of its now-distant glory years, but Derby Day at Flemington’s Birdcage still attracted corporates for the perch.
- Myriam Robin and Mark Di Stefano
How not to assassinate an admiral in Phuket
Kobus Steyn thought he’d found a whale of a client. Then his assignment turned from make-work to murder.
- Paul Murphy
October
Australia’s 100 richest people under 40 revealed
The Young Rich List, now in its 20th year, shows shop owners are thriving in another patchy year for tech founders, and there’s a new young billionaire in town.
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- Michael Bailey
A chicken heir, a Waterhouse and Ozempic: your Euro wedding bingo card
Getting married in Australia is so 2022. This year, all the best weddings were in one place and ticked plenty of the same boxes.
- Lauren Sams and Samantha Hutchinson
‘There is no line’: how Kyle Sandilands thrives in the cancel culture era
The radio host on his record-breaking contract, expanding business empire and what the PM did at his wedding.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
‘What the eff?’: Jack Zhang on Airwallex’s near-death experience
A close call with Silicon Valley Bank could have wiped out half a billion of capital. The swiftness of Airwallex’s response demonstrates why it’s a company to watch.
- Michael Bailey
Andrew Liveris’ guide to making friends and money
The ex-Dow chief sees no point in refusing to associate with those doing the precise opposite of what he says he values. And how else could a self-styled “environmentalist” sit on the board of Saudi Aramco?
- Myriam Robin
The 16 new faces on the Young Rich List
One made a fortune from glittery statement dresses, another sold up to Sam Bankman-Fried just in time. The newest self-made 40-and-unders are a mixed bag.
- Michael Bailey
Australian Club’s young fogeys flex their muscle
The prospect of a head-to-head contest for the next president has some reaching for the smelling salts.
- Myriam Robin
One of the fastest growing categories for Young Rich Listers – vanity
Australian beauty brands have pushed out the established labels, from toothpaste to tanning, with a little product innovation and a lot of savvy marketing.
- Lauren Sams
The green energy multimillionaires taking over the Young Rich List
US-based investor and Young Rich List debutant Gregory Green made an estimated $100 million after selling his share of a landfill gas developer.
- Michael Bailey
