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Hejaz Financial Services co-founder Hakan Ozyon.

Meet the $3b Aussie wealth manager you’ve never heard of

Hakan Ozyon and Muzzammil Dhedhy have quietly built a major financial services player with $3 billion in funds under management, servicing Australian Muslims.

  • Yolanda Redrup
Robert Chamberlain’s Huno Group made a $78.8 million net profit in 2024.

Travel surge cements Young Rich Lister’s new billionaire status

Robert Chamberlain’s Huno Group enjoyed a 25 per cent jump in revenue to more than $232 million, while net profit hit $78.8 million.

  • Yolanda Redrup

How these Young Rich Listers celebrated their own 21st birthdays

To mark the 21st anniversary of the list, we ask notable Young Rich Listers past and present what their lives were like at 21.

  • Yolanda Redrup, Lauren Sams and Matthew Drummond
From left: Melanie Perkins and Cliff Obrecht; Natasha Oakley (front); Georgia Contos; James and Robbie Ferguson.

Australia’s richest people 40 and under break record

The Young Rich List, now in its 21st year, set a new high for total wealth of $41.7 billion in 2024, dominated by technology entrepreneurs and retailers.

  • Yolanda Redrup
Fitness entrepreneurs Stephanie Miller and Tammy Hembrow are on the 2024 Financial Review Young Rich List, which is celebrating its 21st anniversary.

Young Rich tells tale of Australia’s technology fortunes

For every Richard White there are many, many more up-and-coming entrepreneurs doing the right thing.

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Melanie Perkins, Cliff Obrecht, Ed Craven; Sam Prince, James Ferguson, Robbie Ferguson.

The 10 richest young Australians revealed

The Young Rich List, now in its 21st year, has uncovered how the wealthiest Australians aged 40 and under are building their fortunes.

  • Yolanda Redrup

How Jason Daniel went from ‘loose kid’ to the Young Rich List

The LSKD founder always pushed boundaries as he built his activewear company. Now he’s chasing a $1 billion target.

  • Carrie LaFrenz
John Ilhan at Crown Towers in Melbourne in the early 2000s.

From Crazy John’s to Canva, here’s to 21 years of the Young Rich List

Created in the shadow of the dotcom bust, the Young Rich List has unearthed waves of our best entrepreneurs, and been witness to a few busts.

  • James Thomson
Dissh CEO Lucy Henry-Hicks has turned around the label and now it’s a staple in Australian women’s wardrobes.

Lucy Henry-Hicks knows what young women want

A debutant on this year’s Young Rich List, Henry-Hicks took a successful clothing business, tipped it on its head and created a whole new business in Dissh.

  • Lauren Sams

How White Fox duo conquered tween fashion and made $200m

The fast fashion company, which makes oversized sweats and hoodies, is a hit with tweens around the world. Here’s how the Young Rich Lister founders did it.

  • Carrie LaFrenz and Lauren Sams

October

The brothers making a fortune revolutionising healthcare with AI

Aengus and Dimitry Tran’s Harrison.ai wants to help 1 million people every day through its AI diagnostic technologies.

  • Yolanda Redrup

‘The biggest divide in Australia is the intergenerational divide’

Amid the cost-of-living crisis and struggles to get on to the property ladder, it’s getting harder to be young and rich these days.

  • Lucy Dean

Meet the 17 new faces on this year’s Young Rich List

Technology entrepreneurs, retailers, musicians and sports stars are among this year’s debutants.

  • Yolanda Redrup

The real cost of being a Young Rich founder

Many successful entrepreneurs are glad they didn’t know what they were in for, as it would have discouraged them from taking a rocky, albeit rewarding path.

  • Yolanda Redrup

The secret to raising hundreds of millions like these Young Rich

Entrepreneurs on the Young Rich List have raised more than $US3.6 billion in funding from venture capital and private equity. Here are their top tips.

  • Yolanda Redrup
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“I thought it would be a great learning exercise,” Oscar Ledlin says of his first project, when he was 21. It nearly sent him broke.

This developer cracked the Young Rich List by making warehouses sexy

Oscar Ledlin has tapped into the Instagram generation to build his fast-growing commercial property empire, but there have been falls along the way.

  • Larry Schlesinger
Sabri Suby in his sauna. “The ice bath is forced meditation – it’s all about the breathing and it 
really centres you. It quietens the chatter and cleans the slate.”

Why this Young Rich Lister swears by a daily ice bath and sauna

Sabri Suby’s nightly sauna and ice bath routine might sound like an ordeal, but he calls it “forced meditation”.

  • Michael Bailey
Rethink Group’s Scott O’Neill started in real estate investing, but when he bought his first commercial site, he was hooked.

How Scott O’Neill became the commercial property king

Young Rich Listers Scott and Mina O’Neill have had one of the biggest jumps in net worth of those on the 2024 list, but it all started with a supermarket and a fish and chip shop.

  • Yolanda Redrup
Jaddan Comerford, the founder of UNIFIED Music, will invest $10m in Australian artists over the next three years.

Young Rich Lister matches major labels with $10m for local music

Jaddan Comerford’s cash injection into Australian music is of a scale rarely seen in the streaming era.

  • Michael Bailey

August

Sam Kroonenburg shares his story on the How I Made It podcast.

The one thing this Rich Lister says every founder needs to remember

Sam Kroonenburg built a company from his bedroom, with him and his brother Ryan both making about $500 million. But Sam, 40, is doing what he can to avoid the trappings of wealth.

  • Julie-anne Sprague

July

The Warwick brothers’ blockchain-based game Illuvium is launching on Thursday.

Inside the $26b journey of this Young Rich Lister’s crypto game

The Warwick brothers’ blockchain-based game Illuvium has finally launched, marking a new chapter in the wild ride of their billion-dollar company.

  • Yolanda Redrup
Realbase co-founder Frank Greeff sold his company to Domain in 2022 for $180 million, then he decided to write a cookbook.

What it’s like to sell your tech start-up for $180m

For Frank Greeff, selling his real estate marketing company to Domain was the hardest thing he’s ever done, and after it happened he just went to bed.

  • Yolanda Redrup

June

Rich Lister buys Manly’s most expensive home

Maas Group’s Wes Maas and his wife Emma have emerged as the buyers of Manly’s most expensive home for around $35 million.

  • Bonnie Campbell
Steph Claire Smith went from ‘another coat hanger on the books’ to Young Rich Lister.

A Young Rich Lister’s advice for founders wanting social media success

How a back-of-the-napkin plan put fitness star Steph Claire Smith on the Young Rich List.

  • Julie-anne Sprague

May

Simon and Tah-nee Beard, the founders of Culture Kings.

The Young Rich Listers set to smash Queensland property records

Simon and Tah-nee Beard have listed their luxury penthouse for $30 million, more than double what they paid.

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  • Julie-anne Sprague and Bonnie Campbell
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What Rich Listers think about money – and what they teach their kids

Nine of Australia’s wealthiest people reflect on their journey with money and whether material success leads to a rich life.

  • Michael Bailey, Lauren Sams and Yolanda Redrup
 The Di Petta’s collection of Ford Mustang muscle cars, such as these examples pictured, were frozen by the court.

ATO freezes former Young Rich Lister’s muscle cars, mansion

The flamboyant accountant Steve Di Petta, who has a penchant for Ford Mustangs, is facing allegations he and his wife owe the Tax Office over $3 million.

  • Max Mason

How a uni dropout went from Maccas to building a $100m company

Mark Woodland was expanding his education start-up before realising he’d overlooked a critical component for its success and he had to fix it.

  • Julie-anne Sprague
Laurence Escalante on one of his boats in Perth.

Gambling mogul lists superyacht at $10m, starts retailing supercars

A spokesman for Laurence Escalante’s private office said the sales were part of a new business venture.

  • Primrose Riordan

This former Young Rich Lister just spent $700k to alter his genes

Nick Bell’s first business failed, his next made him millions. The serial entrepreneur’s latest business venture involves helping people live longer.

  • Julie-anne Sprague

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