September 2024
Albo keeps it in the family at the AFL commissioner’s lunch
You can’t buy a ticket to Aussie rules’ most exclusive grand final function, so there are few better tests of relevance than trying to score an invitation.
How the AFL’s two grand final teams achieved sustained success
The two Andrews who run the Sydney Swans and the Brisbane Lions say stability is the key to achieving an extended patch of sunshine in the AFL world.
AFL more important to Khuda than data centres, Swans chairman suspects
Andrew Pridham is vice chairman of asset manager MA Financial and chairman of Sydney Swans. AirTrunk founder Robin Khuda texts him before games.
Sydney showcases AFL’s travelling circus
It’s one of those years when interstate teams dominating the AFL finals just ever-so-slightly shifts the power axis.
Ex-Macquarie exec sells landmark mansion as Mosman eyes $50m
Former Macquarie exec David Adams has sold his landmark mansion Kilcreggan, while Walter Burley Griffin-designed landmark estate Coppins returns to market
August 2024
Andrew Pridham finds SA uni merger too gamey to chew
The veteran dealmaker lasted only three months on the Adelaide University Transition Council.
October 2023
MA Financial’s big shift raises two fascinating questions
While Andrew Pridham’s firm’s roots are in investment banking, its growth is being made possible by the disruption of the commercial banking sector.
September 2023
Mystery of what happened to Andrew Pridham’s $2.5m ‘Whiteley’ solved
The investment banker and Sydney Swans chairman speaks for the first time about being duped in Australia’s biggest alleged art fraud.
August 2023
Sydney Swans ‘no d*ckheads’ policy stretches thin
The Swans have taken a strong anti-gambling stance. Shame that no one seems to have told the club’s star forward.
The Buddy effect: How Lance Franklin changed Sydney
Buddy Franklin’s $10 million move to Sydney was controversial to say the least. A record-breaking decade later, few could argue it wasn’t worth the risk.
July 2023
Take your kids to work ... at MA Financial
The ASX-listed asset manager has been giving jobs to the children of the board.
September 2022
Fund managers are the only golden ticket winners
The Significant Investor Visa program is but a paragon of Australia’s lazy reliance on easy cash from China.
Qantas heartburn on AFL game day
Murphy’s law prevails at Qantas, where anything that can go wrong is going wrong.
April 2022
Star Entertainment not even Richard Sheppard’s best work
One CEO will be praying the fallout at Star Entertainment can be quarantined.
February 2022
Former model finds a buyer for her $30m mansion (when finished)
Jennifer Hawkins and her husband have barely begun building their next luxury mansion on Sydney’s Whale Beach clifftop, but that’s not stopped it selling.
December 2021
The 10 most memorable Lunches with the AFR in 2021
After a year of Zoom lunches, 2021’s Lunch with the AFR was able to return to an in-person affair. And this year’s subjects didn’t hold back on some of the biggest issues.
September 2021
Leadership lessons from a six-billion-dollar man
Eating sushi outdoors a few hours’ drive from locked-down Sydney, discussing his new book, shows what matters to Moelis Australia vice-chairman Andrew Pridham.
April 2021
Guilty verdict in Melbourne fake art scam
One of the associates of “notorious” Melbourne art dealer Peter Gant has been found guilty of misleading or deceptive conduct in a failed investment scheme that used a cache of fake art as security.
He said, ‘You should invest, I’ll help you out’
When a friend suggested an art investment scheme that returned 20 per cent a year, it seemed an ideal opportunity. But seven years later the claims, like the art, have failed to deliver.
January 2020
Moelis to find partners for Springfield's $88b plan
Andrew Pridham's Moelis Australia has been set a unique task for a unique project, writes Chanticleer.