John Grill
News and interviews on John Grill including trends, features, blogs and community conversations from an Australian business perspective.
Rich recoup lossesMonday, 26 October 2009
Meet the comeback kids. A year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the onset a global equity slump, a group of wealthy Australian investors including James Packer, Kerr Neilson and Gerry Harvey have managed to recoup their losses - and then some. ...
The rich start their comeback
Monday, 06 July 2009
If you are a typical investor, it's unlikely that you bothered to celebrate the end of the 2008-09 financial year. Let's face it - it was a shocker. ...
The rich who'll reap a budget bounty
Monday, 18 May 2009
As predicted, Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan's second budget contained a number of attacks on the wealthy. ...
The billionaires who won't be beaten
Monday, 16 March 2009
Forget the Great Depression and the "great recession". For the world's richest entrepreneurs, this has been the year of the great destruction. ...
The boom goes bust
Monday, 02 February 2009
For the non-believer, last week's news flow proved beyond any skerrick of a doubt that the mining boom is officially over. China's economy has slowed sharply, miners such as BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto are slashing jobs and shelving projects and commodity prices ...
The year the rich would rather forget
Friday, 12 December 2008
The year 2008 may well go down in history as the year Australia’s richest investors lost their mojo. JAMES THOMSON tracks the downward spiral, and measures the rich top 30’s rate of leakage. ...
Still some ‘thump’ in a softer landing
Saturday, 20 September 2008
A slight reprieve from a resounding sharemarket rout last week has not exactly saved their fortunes – so ‘devastation’ is still a word with some currency for the filthy rich. JAMES THOMSON ...
Who is getting richer from the budget?
Monday, 19 May 2008
The federal budget has been criticised for closing some wealth options – but a few have opened too. JAMES THOMSON reveals which filthy rich are looking to clean up, and which are looking a little leaner. ...
Gates no longer world’s richest man: Forbes
Friday, 07 March 2008
The winds of change blew through the ranks of the world’s richest men and women in 2007, with a new richest man on both the world stage and in Australia, and a surge in the number of developing world billionaires. Microsoft founder Bill Gates has been toppled ...
Entrepreneurs suffering the most pain
Monday, 14 January 2008
Reckon your share portfolio has had a poor start to the year? You’re not alone. Australia’s 30 biggest sharemarket investors – a list that includes giants such as James Packer, Andrew Forrest, Frank Lowy and Gerry Harvey – have seen more than $2.8 billion ...
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