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Damon Kitney has spent three decades in financial journalism, including 16 years at The Australian Financial Review and 12 years as Victorian business editor at The Australian. He specialises in writing the untold personal stories of the nation’s richest and most private people and now has his own writing and advisory business, DMK Publishing. He has published three books, The Price of Fortune: The Untold Story of being James Packer; The Inner Sanctum, and The Fortune Tellers.

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Head of Bell Direct Advantage Ryan Phillips

The secret, lonely lives of our millionaire day traders

Broker Ryan Phillips has spent 25 years chasing the elusive creatures who drive daily volumes in financial markets. These are the rules they swear by.

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Willed - Founded: 2020, Investment: $6 millionFounders: Tim Glasson, Aaron Zelman and Dave Kaplan, Created in Melbourne in 2020 after co-founder Dave Kaplan lost his father interstate, Willed is an online platform for organising wills, probate applications and even cremations simply and inexpensively. Picture: Tony Gough

‘Game changer’ as billionaires invest in Willed

The Stokes family-backed Seven West Media is joining Ellerston Capital and billionaire Alex Waislitz’s Thorney Investment Group in backing the nation’s largest online will-writing and end-of-life planning platform.

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Swyftx founders Alex Harper and Angus Goldman.

Aussie duo’s wild ride fronting the crypto money roller coaster

Swyftx trading exchange founders and best mates Alex Harper and Angus Goldman are the Aussie face of the crypto generation but the highs and lows have tested their will and resilience.

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Family food empire built on love and ‘giving a duck’

Daniel Shoppee is the third generation of his family to preside over Australia’s largest duck producer and throughout the good and bad times there has been one important motto: ‘Don’t quit’.

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Wednesday 21st August 2024. The Australian. James Hogan AO, FRAeS, Chairman of Knighthood Global and former President and CEO of Etihad Airways.Photograph by Arsineh Houspian.

‘You can’t shrink an airline to profitability’: James Hogan unplugged

The former Etihad Airways chief reveals untold secrets of his reign in Abu Dhabi, frustration over the trashing of his legacy and why he won’t work in Australian aviation again.

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WHEN Fertility founders Malyon “Maz” Coote and husband Brett Barnes, former Wallabies captian John Eales, and Coote with reality star Khloe Kardashian. Picture: Sevak Babakhani

The rugby legend, a PR queen and a miracle baby

A chance encounter between two couples, one struggling to have a baby and the other biotech founders, led to a ‘crazy’ idea that brought fertility testing into homes and potential joy to prospective parents.

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Tuesday 30th July 2024. The Australian.Roshni Nadar Malhotra is an Indian billionaire businesswoman and philanthropist and the chairperson of HCL Technologies.She is the first woman to lead a listed IT company in India.Photograph by Arsineh Houspian.

Inside the private world of India’s wealthiest woman

She’s been called one of the most powerful women in the world and is the heiress to a $US36.5bn tech empire fortune, but Roshni Nadar Malhotra is more than an entitled, flashy billionaire.

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CEDA chief executive Melinda Cilento speaking at a CEDA event

‘I thought your husband was a single father’: brutal reality check for career woman

Melinda Cilento has blazed a trail in public policy at the BCA and CEDA plus the Woodside board by role reversing with her husband. But she hasn’t escaped the old stereotypes.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos MARCH, 18, 2021: David Gonski speaks to the media during a press conference in Sydney. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Bianca De Marchi

Gonski hails FGG move to measure impact

Veteran business leader David Gonski, has lauded a landmark move by philanthropic fund manager Future Generation Group to quantify the collective social impact of its not-for-profit partners.

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Former Australian Olympic sailing champion and Zhik CEO Mat Belcher . Picture: Supplied

From top of the world to testing times for Olympian

Sailing legend Mat Belcher broke down when told of his daughter’s Down syndrome diagnosis in 2016. But eight-year-old Amelie is now the inspiration and drive for his latest venture.

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