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    The Aussie funds that beat bitcoin and big tech

    It was often savvy bets at the smaller end of the market that shot the top-performing fund managers to the top of the leader table in the last financial year.

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    • Joshua Peach

    Yesterday

    The Securities and Exchange Commission has been worried about a lack of clearly defined valuation procedures and protocols for mitigating private markets’ many conflicts of interest.

    Private equity has become hazardous terrain for investors

    The days of easy windfalls from freakishly loose monetary policy are gone. Now, private capital is much more hazardous terrain for investors.

    • John Plender
    Investing in the cryptocurrency space can be daunting.

    Reshaping finance

    Probing the changing outlook for cryptocurrency investing, decentralised assets, blockchain technology and Web 3.0 at the Financial Review’s Crypto & Digital Assets Summit 2024.

    This Month

    Planning for a comfortable future: Micheala Ripa.

    How this 29-year-old pilot plans to retire at 50 with $2.5m

    From meal-prepping a month in advance to investing in Tesla and Coca-Cola, here’s how one young couple is hoping to retire early.

    • Lucy Dean
    Property developer Intaj Khan is expected to be called up for liquidator examinations on Wednesday.

    Developer Intaj Khan to be examined over failed $30m property deal

    Suspected Ponzi scheme Remi Capital raised money from investors to buy Mr Khan’s 24.6-hectare site but allegedly funnelled the money into a secret bank account.

    • David Marin-Guzman
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    June

    Warren Buffett donates record $8b in shares to charity

    Warren Buffett has made his biggest annual donation since he began making them in 2006.

    • Jonathan Stempel

    How to take the tax sting out of inheriting shares

    Nearly $5 trillion will be passed on over the next decade. But advisers warn it’s easy to fumble a pricey portfolio if you’re not careful.

    • Lucy Dean
    Betashares co-founder and CEO Alex Vynokur is planning big growth.

    Story of change in rise of Betashares, decline of Perpetual and AMP

    The shift from active to passive management is changing the face of Australia’s financial sector. Unaffordable housing could shift things again.

    • James Thomson
    Kate Turner of First Sentier says that while the importance of nature is intrinsically understood, it’s harder to account for it in a financial sense.

    Nature the next frontier but boards lack skills

    Biodiversity is critical for maintaining a liveable planet, but a deficit of skills at the board level is proving a roadblock in accounting for its value.

    • Lucy Dean

    After the Voice, October 7, should business say less?

    How should companies respond to contested social and political issues not directly related to core business?

    • Patrick Langrell

    May

    Mike Cannon Brookes, Richard White and Nicola Forrest are among the Rich Listers tied to listed companies.

    How to invest like a Rich Lister and beat the market

    There are 37 listed stocks linked to Rich List members, and their ability to deliver above-market returns is impressive. 

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    • James Thomson
    Walk around any Italian town and the message is clear. Elderly Italians like to sit around chatting – and that’s free.

    Baby Boomers are loaded. Why are they so stingy?

    Recent evidence has cast doubt on the notion that a spending splurge by those born between 1946 and 1964 is on the way.

    • The Economist
    Rod Jones

    Perth’s $150m club is among highest in the world

    Perth, with a population of more than 2 million, has 64 centi-millionaires. That places it among the richest cities in the world by that measure.

    • Harry Brumpton, Paul-Alain Hunt and Patrick Winters
    Bronte Capital co-founder and chief investment officer John Hempton in his Bondi Junction office. About half the books on his bookshelf recount frauds.

    John Hempton laments return of meme machine Roaring Kitty

    Before being hit by last week’s meme-stock rally triggered by an online stock promoter, Sydney hedge fund manager John Hempton was having a great year.

    • Aaron Patrick