Rich List
WiseTech co-founder in big payday, selling stake to Richard White
The 10.2 million shares are worth more than $1 billion based on Friday’s share price.
- by Colin Kruger
Latest
You can’t have too much money, happiness researcher finds
When it comes to money buying happiness, more is better, says a study that has found the correlation between wealth and well-being does not plateau once incomes reach a certain point.
- by Conrad Quilty-Harper
The uni rich list: Vice chancellors on $1 million salaries revealed
Australia’s highest-paid vice chancellors are now earning six times their university’s senior professors as the union calls for an inquiry into wage theft.
- by Daniella White and Sherryn Groch
Opinion
Billionaires
Read it and weep: The Forbes billionaires just got a lot richer
Billionaires now account for $US14.2 trillion of the world’s wealth. To put this into perspective, this is larger than the gross domestic product of any country other than the US and China.
- by Elizabeth Knight
Opinion
Billionaires
Australia has more billionaires than ever. That’s nothing to celebrate
Marking a new high of ultra-wealthy individuals is one record we shouldn’t be cheering about.
- by Victoria Devine
The world’s first trillionaire could rise within 10 years: Oxfam
Oxfam has for years been trying to highlight the growing disparities between the super-rich and the bulk of the global population. That gap has been “supercharged”.
- by Pan Pylas and Masha Macpherson
L’Oreal heiress Francoise Bettencourt Meyers becomes first woman with $US100 billion fortune
The milestone comes as shares of L’Oreal, the beauty empire founded by Bettencourt Meyers’ grandfather, rose to a record high.
- by Tara Patel
Billions wiped from Atlassian duo’s fortunes
Australian tech billionaires Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar have taken a financial hit as their software company posts widening losses.
- by David Swan
Opinion
Private Sydney
Rich list season gives glimpse inside the world of the ultra-wealthy
According to the various stocktakes of wealth that have been published recently around the world, it’s been a tough 12 months at the pointy end.
- by Andrew Hornery
Sydney rich-listers flogging designer wardrobes online for pocket money
Hillsong heiress Laura Toggs and Laser Clinics Australia co-founder Kate Champion aren’t the only society figures reselling clothes online, but buyer beware: you’re going to need a fat wallet.
- by Lucy Manly
Society wedding unites Sydney’s powerful dynasties
The harbour city is home to wealthy blue-bloods, many of whom are interconnected through marriage.
- by Lucy Manly
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