This Month
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.
- Updated
- Joshua Peach
- Opinion
- Private equity
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
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.
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
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
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
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
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
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
- Opinion
- ESG Summit
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
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.
- Updated
- James Thomson
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
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
