December 2023
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- Private schools
‘Unimaginable’: Newington mum speaks out against co-ed plan
A decision to admit girls to 160-year-old private boys’ school Newington College in Sydney has been a lightning rod for the broader community.
- Samantha Hutchinson
Jets, yachts and a $380 steak: this state is booming again
The strong iron ore price is tipping billions into government coffers, and bolstering profits for the big miners, helping the top end of town to continue splashing cash.
- Tom Rabe
November 2023
‘It was great newspaper fodder’: Village Roadshow CEO on family bust-up
A family feud threatened to break their hold on the entertainment industry. But the Kirbys are staging an unlikely comeback, albeit with a smaller piece of their empire.
- Primrose Riordan
Two Rich Listers make billions from Qld coal
Wealthy businessmen Sam Chong and Chris Wallin are the beneficiaries of big paydays from highly profitable Bowen Basin operations, despite softening prices.
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- Primrose Riordan and Joshua Peach
October 2023
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
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- Rich List
Myer, Baillieu family’s wealth firm eyes commercial property
Mutual Trust is the country’s largest and most significant multifamily office. It says there are opportunities in the big fall in real asset values.
- Primrose Riordan
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- Rich List
Oatley family empire carve-up starts with vineyards
The heirs to a fortune assembled by Bob Oatley are already attempting to sell Hamilton Island, their largest asset, for more than $1 billion.
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- Primrose Riordan
September 2023
- Opinion
- Commercial real estate
A Hong Kong property billionaire with a big family dilemma
Younger heirs to the most established families need to prove business acumen is still in their DNA, amid rapid change in the economy and the financial world.
- Shuli Ren
Reclusive Sydney gambling mogul emerges as kingmaker in South Africa
Martin Moshal is the largest individual political donor in South Africa, according to electoral records analysed by a non-profit.
- Primrose Riordan
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- Tourism
Malaysian billionaires eye a bid for Hamilton Island
Not every sibling in the wealthy Oatley family is as enthusiastic to sell the prized asset purchased by Bob Oatley, the legendary sailor who died in 2016.
- Primrose Riordan
Forget private jets: billionaires want their own subs
The implosion of the Titan private submersible killed five and shocked the world, yet multimillion-dollar underwater toys are more in demand than ever.
- Caroline White
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- Investing
Why Australia’s wealthy hide their true riches from friends and family
But one Rich Lister warns not talking openly about wealth can end badly for relatives left behind.
- Primrose Riordan
Caledonia still believes in this loss-making US property stock
Will Vicars’ hedge fund started investing in the real estate platform more than 10 years ago, and the Packer and Fairfax families followed.
- Primrose Riordan
August 2023
New Fortescue hire Kwasi Kwarteng barred from advising on UK affairs
Kwasi Kwarteng has been barred from advising his potential new employer, mining magnate Andrew Forrest, about UK energy affairs and lobbying the British government.
- Primrose Riordan
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- Hydrogen
Andrew Forrest offers work to former UK chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng
Kwasi Kwarteng helped spark a UK financial crisis and was sacked after five weeks.
- Primrose Riordan
Sydney’s Soho House back to the drawing board as neighbours baulk
One resident said loud staff would “disturb the peace” on their breaks; another was worried knocked-over bins would attract people “looking for food”.
- Primrose Riordan
Australia’s secretive family offices in decade-long boom
Australian family offices have grown exponentially over the past decade and their CEOs are among the best paid.
- Primrose Riordan
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- Commercial property finance
Melbourne’s wealthy Smorgon family reset their real estate strategy
Peter Edwards, Victor Smorgon’s grandson, says he is directing the property portion of the office’s Australian portfolio towards travel and hospitality.
- Primrose Riordan
Why Australia has 20pc fewer millionaires
About 1.8 million Australians have a personal wealth valued above $1 million, but the number shrank in 2022 because of interest rates, market and currency hits.
- Duncan Hughes
How to quit your corporate job and work for a billionaire
Family offices – secretive companies set up to manage the wealth of the uber rich – are looking further afield for staff.
- Primrose Riordan
