Friday, 05 March 2010
Iron ore baron Andrew Forrest has stolen James Packer's crown as the richest man in the country, after his net worth jumped a massive 149% during the past year backed by rising commodity prices and demand, the latest Forbes Australia's 40 Richest list reveals. ...
Rich recoup losses
Monday, 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. ...
How Australia’s richest fund manager beat the market: Boyd
Thursday, 13 August 2009
Australia's best international fund manager, Kerr Neilson, has shared the strategy he used to beat the MSCI world stock index by 35% in 2009. ...
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 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 ...
Mining boom saves the Rich 200, but tougher times ahead: Thomson
Thursday, 29 May 2008
The annual celebration of Australian wealth that is the BRW Rich 200 hits the streets today. But many of the people on the list – particularly those not involved in digging rocks out of the ground – are likely to be cheering. It has been a difficult year for ...
Australia’s richest executives
Thursday, 27 March 2008
Australian mining chiefs dominate the second annual BRW Executive Rich list, which ranks the 200 wealthiest managers by shareholding value. The commodities boom has pushed the number of mining bosses on the list to 71, up from 39 a year ago. But the heads ...
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 ...
When the entrepreneurial bug bites
Tuesday, 04 December 2007
What would it take to jump head-first from a nice, safe corporate career into a start-up entrepreneurial business? JAMES THOMSON finds out. ...
10 big rich mistakes
Saturday, 25 August 2007
Believe it or not, our richest entrepreneurs have actually made some mistakes on their way to fame and fortune – and some of them are dooseys. Here are the top 10. By JAMES BENNETT. ...
Business money saver… New billionaire… Market heads upmarket… Water bad news… Rein back in the spotlight… Do Not Call rush… Economy roundup…
Thursday, 24 May 2007
Business owner money saver Business owners could save thousands of dollars, investor relations costs plus a few trees with new legislation introduced this morning into Federal Parliament. Key measures in the wide ranging legislative package include: Allowing ...
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