This Month
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- Victoria residential property
Alex Waislitz and Tim Gurner feud over luxury St Kilda tower
The wealthy businessmen are at loggerheads over problems at the Saint Moritz development. Mr Waislitz says Mr Gurner is trying to silence residents.
- Primrose Riordan and Sarah Thompson
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- Construction
Roberts Co names Emma Shipley MD, George Kostas as chair
The Rich Lister-owned building contractor gave little detail about the resignation of its previous CEO Matt Bourne just before Christmas.
- Michael Bleby
The billionaire, the mine, the minority stake and her lover
It’s 14 years since Gina Rinehart transferred ownership of a company to her late lover. The company controls a stake in her next big mine, but who controls it?
- Peter Ker
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- Commercial property finance
The secretive Saunders family is going all in on lending to the rich
The late John Saunders founded Westfield with Frank Lowy. The family investment vehicle sees plenty of opportunities in helping the cash-strapped wealthy.
- Primrose Riordan
December 2024
The top AFR Magazine reads of 2024
From what Rich Listers teach their kids to why Saudi Arabia is luring so many Australians, here’s a collection of some of our best-read features this year.
Rich Lister charged in park asbestos contamination
Arnold Vitocco’s family company owns chocolate chain Max Brenner and is credited with building Liverpool in Sydney’s west. He is now charged with environmental crimes.
- Rohan Sullivan
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- Property development
James Packer-backed $400m Toorak project gets the green light
Developer Orchard Piper has won an appeal against a council decision regarding its eight-level project on the site of a former Mercedes-Benz dealership.
- Larry Schlesinger
- Opinion
- Governance
I sent Andrew Forrest 50 hard questions. He invited me to have a talk
After months of reporting, and only carefully worded written responses from Fortescue, I found myself with the iron ore billionaire on the company jet in the Pilbara.
- Primrose Riordan
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- Governance
Fortescue executive chairman Andrew Forrest in his own words
After The Australian Financial Review sent 50 questions following an investigation, the iron ore billionaire and green energy advocate sat down for an interview.
- Primrose Riordan
- Investigation
- Governance
Inside the ‘unending chaos’ at Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue
After a frenetic world tour, the billionaire had to wind back his hydrogen plans. A Financial Review investigation looks at what led to an exodus of executives.
- Primrose Riordan
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- Rich List
Late billionaire David Hains’ sons go their separate ways
People close to the family said that the split of assets was amicable. One son of the pioneering hedge fund manager has quietly started his own family office.
- Primrose Riordan
How a billionaire and government saved a key Sydney theatre
Griffin Theatre Company gave the world Cate Blanchett and David Wenham, but a soaring budget for a much-needed rebuild almost took it away.
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- Michael Bailey
November 2024
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- Capital raising
Billionaire John Van Lieshout backs sustainability investor Infragreen
Infragreen has secured a $40 million investment from Rich Lister John Van Lieshout’s fund to acquire a peaking power plant.
- Yolanda Redrup
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- Philanthropy
Australia’s wealthiest women join forces to supercharge philanthropy
Women from Australia’s biggest philanthropic donors met in Canberra on Thursday for She Gives’ first roundtable, including Fiona Geminder and the Fox family.
- Yolanda Redrup
This Rich Lister has a plan to save cinema (and his business)
Blackmagic Design’s Grant Petty hopes his new camera, which shoots at 16 times the standard image quality, can lift box-office sales and those of his company too.
- Michael Bailey
The Rich List region that’s become Sydney’s Hamptons
The Southern Highlands has become to Sydney what the Hamptons is to New York or the Cotswolds to London, attracting some of the biggest names to its secluded estates.
- Bonnie Campbell
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- Gaming & wagering
Laurence Escalante’s VGW bulks up exec ranks as casinos bristle
Virtual Gaming Worlds was one of the early beneficiaries of a US legislative loophole in states where gambling is otherwise banned. It’s now under attack.
- Primrose Riordan and Zoe Samios
Goodman suffers first strike against pay despite 75pc return
The industrial powerhouse suffered a 34 per cent protest vote against its remuneration report despite reporting “truly outstanding” FY24 results.
- Larry Schlesinger and Campbell Kwan
Rich Lister strikes three with $170 million Adelaide mall deal
After making a fortune in petrol stations, Nick Andrianakos is reinvesting that wealth into the retail revival, with a string of big mall investments.
- Nick Lenaghan
Inside a decade-long rollercoaster ride with Afterpay’s Nick Molnar
Ten years ago this week, the buy now, pay later firm’s founder sold some jewellery to his business partner Anthony Eisen in a novel way: pay-in-four.
- James Eyers and Jonathan Shapiro