Today
Meet the next wave of self-made women
A group of emerging female founders are positioned to grow their wealth substantially in the next decade.
- 40 mins ago
- Yolanda Redrup
Yesterday
- Opinion
- Bitcoin
Bitcoin mania is in full swing – with no end in sight
The cryptocurrency was trading at just $US16,000 at the depths of a crisis brought on by the FTX collapse. It set a fresh high early on Wednesday morning.
- Karen Maley
This Month
Not ‘one of the boys’: Fundies with a different leadership style
Up-and-coming and leading fund managers share their journeys through the wealth sector and impart their best lessons.
- Lucy Dean
Rate cuts are coming. Here’s what retiree investors can do
Once interest rates start to fall, the cash and term deposits that make up large portions of Australian retirees’ portfolios will deliver a little less. Here’s what to think about.
- Tom Richardson
PAC Capital name to be taken off funds, stay on building
Clayton Larcombe’s controversial funds management business is distancing itself from its own name following negative publicity.
- Aaron Patrick
February
The best mix of assets for your retirement portfolio
Financial advisers say moderately wealthy Australians and those better off can afford to stay weighted to growth assets into retirement.
- Tom Richardson
- Opinion
- Trader’s tale
I bought Nvidia at $US200 and I’m not selling
My US equities portfolio, dominated as it is by Nvidia, returned over 100 per cent, a handsome gain.
- Updated
- Nicki Bourlioufas
How to pass on a prized collection to your kids
Precious collections of art, furniture, wine and watches are increasingly part of inheritances. What’s the best way to pass on these assets?
- Bianca Hartge-Hazelman
Wealthy families are trying something new – ditching the secrecy
There’s a new breed of private investment vehicle for the super rich. And they’re less interested in managing money out of view than making more of it.
- Primrose Riordan
- Opinion
- Office
Five A-REITs worth a second look
While the glory days of real estate investment trusts may over, the sector will surely stage a comeback.
- Elio D'Amato
Top investors share the toughest lessons they had to learn
No one gets good at financial decision-making without taking the risk of being wrong and then figuring out how to adjust.
- Suzanne Woolley
The five models that show shares are still good value at record highs
Even though shares are at their peaks, they’re not expensive given the outlook for falling interest rates and versus history, according to these models.
- Tom Richardson
- Opinion
- Investing
Quality, the stock market’s last free lunch
We’re led to believe that the higher the risk, the higher the return. But that’s not actually how sharemarkets have worked, and no one can explain why.
- Jonathan Shapiro
Where did all the billionaire families go?
Wealthy families’ assets usually dissipate over generations, not because they choose bad investments but because they concentrate their risk.
- Victor Haghani and James White
January
- Opinion
- Regulation
‘Sophisticated investor’ rule change will be counterproductive
It’s not the money, it is the advice and expertise that a new investor can get access to that protects everyone’s interests.
- Mark Humphery-Jenner
Angel investors could be shut out by tougher sophistication test
Venture capitalists warn that an inquiry designed to protect retirees from investing in dodgy schemes could make the start-up sector an unwitting victim.
- Lucy Dean
AFR Alpha Live 2024 investment summit
The Australian Financial Review has gathered for a second year, the world’s most insightful market experts and commentators to explore and make sense of this unprecedented macro and investing backdrop.
Bill Ackman brings activist playbook to the culture wars
The investor fashioned a place for himself as an arbiter of how public companies should behave. He’s now using similar tactics to dictate terms far beyond business.
- Annie Massa, Katherine Burton and Amanda Gordon
Knowledge test needed for ‘sophisticated investors’: advisers
Financial advisers say more needs to be done to ensure products aren’t mis-sold to underqualified investors, ahead of a lift in the sophisticated investor threshold.
- Lucy Dean and Duncan Hughes
Investors ‘flying blind’ over climate lawsuit risks
Polluting companies could be liable for trillions in damages from climate cases, but investors and regulators are overlooking the risks, academics warn.
- Gus McCubbing
