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Richard White can count on Andrew Bragg. But Phil Chronican is out.

NAB no longer hosting Richard White

No man is an island – not even a billionaire. All have some vulnerability to the headlines, even when seemingly determined to ride them out.

  • Myriam Robin

September

Gold Dinner chairwoman Monica Saunders-Weinberg and her husband and committee member Richard Weinberg.

How the wealthy daughters of Westfield co-founder John Saunders invest

Previously unreported filings for Terrace Tower, owned by the late businessman’s family, reveal assets worth $1.85 billion. But it has been a bumpy two years.

  • Primrose Riordan and Ronald Mizen
Kerry Stokes, Lindsay Fox, Monica Saunders-Weinberg, Betty Saunders-Klimenko and Imelda Roche.

Rich Lister wealth secrets revealed after 30-year loophole ends

Two years after removing an exemption that allowed Australia’s richest families to keep details of their private companies secret, their financials are filtering through.

  • Ronald Mizen and Tom McIlroy
Nicola Forrest and John Hartman at the site of the Uungula wind farm near Wellington in NSW.

Hartman exit leaves separated Forrests occupying Tattarang board

The longest surviving member of the Forrest inner circle, John Hartman, has left the board of the private company that holds most of the couple’s combined fortune.

  • Brad Thompson and Peter Ker
Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar from Atlassian.

Big business called an emergency. The hotel obliged.

No sooner had Business Council of Australia CEO Bran Black declared a national emergency than loud sirens began ringing 

  • Myriam Robin
Declan Sherman went from Sydney  to New York to Brazil with Macquarie before starting his own business.

This ex-Macquarie banker toned up Brazil – and made a fortune

When Declan Sherman moved to the Latin American country with the investment bank, he was inspired to show the locals a new way to exercise.

  • Yolanda Redrup

August

The Collins Street entrance to Melbourne’s Athenaeum Club.

Young fogeys of Melbourne’s private clubs unite!

It’s hard being counter-cultural, so Melbourne’s most privileged conservative young men have decided to band together.

  • Myriam Robin
Allan Myers: not interested in belonging to a club that “racially discriminates”.

The power player who sparked a Melbourne Club feud

Those who regularly traverse the tricky world of club politics speak of it as a blood sport.

  • Myriam Robin
Stake co-founder Matt Leibowitz.

This trader spotted a ‘really big gap’ – and made a fortune

Stake’s Matt Leibowitz loved his job as a derivatives trader, but when his friends started asking how to invest in US stocks, he saw an opportunity.

  • Yolanda Redrup