May 2022
Total Rich List wealth soars past half a trillion dollars
With 137 billionaires on the list, it’s a record year for wealth creation as the gap widens between the top of the table and the rest.
- Julie-anne Sprague and Michael Bailey
February 2022
Glencore boss says it will pay $2.1b to move on from corruption probes
Gary Nagle says the company expects to settle investigations in the US, UK and Brazil, and vowed that “we won’t see that ever again in this business”.
- Thomas Biesheuvel
August 2021
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
China’s gift to Glencore
The global energy trading system has adjusted seamlessly to Beijing’s ban on Australian coal and helped underpin record profits at the big fossil fuel producer.
- Tony Boyd
April 2021
Tax spectre haunts mining boom, Glencore warns
Kevin Rudd’s call to revive the super-profits tax raised the alarm at the mining giant’s Switzerland HQ.
- Hans van Leeuwen
December 2020
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Glasenberg leaves ‘mini Ivan’ with a major problem
Ivan Glasenberg will retire firm in his view that Glencore is right to retain its thermal coal mines. Successor Gary Nagle will face pressure to take a different path.
- James Thomson
- Opinion
- Governance
Glencore's copper-bottomed portfolio will help it through rough patch
It will be up to Gary Nagle, who takes over from Ivan Glasenberg, to make current tailwinds pay off. If he fails, the recent share price recovery will not last.
- Updated
- The Lex Column
Australia's lost China exports others' gain: Glasenberg
Mining and trading giant Glencore has stepped up shipments of thermal coal to China from other countries since Beijing froze out Australian imports, chief executive Ivan Glasenberg revealed.
- Hans van Leeuwen
October 2020
Coal demergers are a carbon cop-out, Glencore CEO says
Ivan Glasenberg also said 'hard investors' were more focused on shareholder returns than on issues such as Juukan Gorge.
- Hans van Leeuwen
July 2020
ASX slumps 2pc; Stocks notch up four month winning streak
Australian stocks notched up their fourth consecutive month of gains despite a 2 per cent sell-off on Friday. The S&P/ASX200 rose 0.5 per cent in July. Bank stocks tumbled as 10-year yields fell to the lowest since early April. AMP plunged 12 per cent on a profit warning. Super Retail soared 9 per cent on sales growth.
- Robert Guy, Vesna Poljak, William McInnes, Sarah Turner, Luke Housego and Tom Richardson
March 2020
What Rich Listers are doing amid market chaos
More than $5.3 billion has been wiped off the paper wealth of Financial Review Rich Listers since the market’s peak a fortnight ago.
- Julie-anne Sprague
January 2020
As Glasenberg leaves, what next for Glencore?
With the firm under investigation in the US and UK, Glencore's chief Ivan Glasenberg is relinquishing his crown.
- Updated
- Ed Clowes
December 2019
- Opinion
- Mining
Glasenberg flags exit, but only when he's ready
With his strategy embedded and a succession plan evolving, Glencore's CEO predicts a bright future for coal and says he will stand aside only when he knows the next generation is ready.
- Matthew Stevens
November 2019
Ivan Glasenberg visits Mike Henry, already
Glencore's chief diverted to Melbourne on Friday to visit his BHP counterparts.
- Joe Aston
May 2019
Australia's 200 richest people revealed
Property remains the main vehicle by which fortunes are made. But those in tech are easily the quickest builders of wealth in a record-breaking Financial Review Rich List.
- Updated
- Michael Bailey
Glencore veteran rises in the curious case of the $121m CEO
A long-serving Glencore man has assumed extra executive duties at Aurelia Metals at a time when the company is considering buying a Glencore mine in NSW.
- Peter Ker