Yesterday
Meet the man who conned the world
Long before Nigerian princes became a fixture of email inboxes, John Ackah Blay-Miezah spun a web of lies that promised untold riches from Ghana’s colonial past.
- Yepoka Yeebo
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
