This Month
How Megan Wynne went from occupational therapist to $1.5b empire
After creating one of the world’s biggest employment services companies, Megan Wynne is about to join the Rich List - and she’s plotting the next phase of growth.
- Julie-anne Sprague
Warren Buffett’s fortune tops $129b as his stock soars
Investor Warren Buffett’s fortune surged above $US100 billion when shares of his company hit a record high.
- Josh Funk
Why so many Rich Women are media-shy
Many female founders of big Australian businesses have much lower profiles than their male counterparts, and ingrained sexism could explain their silence.
- Michael Bailey
Meet the three new women set to join the Rich List
The owners of retail brands Decjuba, Mecca and Culture Kings are poised to join the Financial Review Rich List in May.
- Julie-anne Sprague
‘Accidental’ businesswoman Jude Turner finds the sweet spot
The founder of Spicers Retreats and wife of Flight Centre co-founder Graham ‘Skroo’ Turner is a $271 million pandemic success story.
- Fiona Carruthers
The nation’s richest women revealed
The inaugural Rich Women List showcases several entrepreneurs who are set to join the Financial Review Rich List in their own right after building successful companies.
- Julie-anne Sprague and Michael Bailey
- Opinion
- Rich listers
The problem with our Rich List
The Financial Review’s lists of the country’s wealthy have a women problem. The reasons are many, but they might not reflect the full picture.
- Julie-anne Sprague
February
The Yorkshireman who revolutionised Australian investment banking
John Caldon nurtured the generations of talent that made Macquarie great, then revolutionised rail freight as chairman of the Australian Rail Track Corporation.
- Michael Easson
New jet for Kerry Stokes, Forrest next in queue
Stokes is only the second Australian to own the new Global Express 7500 after John Gandel.
- Joe Aston
Ex-Credit Corp chairman sells down
Credit Corp director Don McLay filed notice on Thursday that he’d sold 110,000 shares this week at an average price of $33.29 a pop, securing $3.7 million.
- Myriam Robin
James Packer set to fall further down the Rich List
The casino mogul, once Australia’s richest person, may not make the top 20 if forecasts for Crown Resorts shares are realised.
- Michael Bailey
Packer’s behaviour ‘intolerable’: Bergin
The billionaire got the dressing down his directors and executives would never give him in Tuesday’s report to the NSW gambling regulator.
- Michael Bailey
Brierley faces more charges of possessing child abuse material
The new total of 17 charges only came to light on Thursday morning in his latest court hearing at Downing Street Local Court in Sydney.
- Max Mason
Forrest pours fortune into war on plastic
Andrew Forrest has blasted petrochemical companies for continuing to churn out plastic as he funds research into the risk of tiny particles entering the human brain.
- Brad Thompson
Why Stokes swapped iron ore for buckets of salt
Ryan Stokes believes BCI Minerals made the right calls in selling iron ore assets to focus on a $779 million salt project.
- Brad Thompson
January
Government sceptical of Forrest’s green steel vision
Andrew Forrest says the nation must exit fossil fuels by using environmentally friendly technology and the vast iron ore reserves of his Fortescue Metals Group.
- Updated
- Brad Thompson
Forrest hires sovereign borders commander for fire fight
Andrew Forrest's Minderoo Foundation has hired Operation Sovereign Borders commander Lee Goddard to help fire-proof Australia with the help of high-tech surveillance technology.
- Brad Thompson
