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Nine tips for family businesses navigating the great wealth transfer
Most dreams of creating a family dynasty are dashed within decades but a solid succession plan can save money and grief.
- Duncan Hughes
$100,000 may be the new norm for city home deposits
With a standard 20 per cent deposit, Australians need to have saved a median of $100,000 to enter the property market in capital cities.
- Michelle Bowes
I have an older-style pension – has the government forgotten about us?
While legacy income streams were not addressed in the recent federal budget, there are steps you can take to make them easier to work with.
- John Wasiliev
Why the proposed new $3m super tax is simpler than you think
But the devil is in the detail, so the potential for complexity lies in how the “proportion” and “earnings” amounts are worked out.
- Meg Heffron
First home buyers have two weeks to score $12,000 tax break
Advisers say borrowers would be mad not to take advantage of the First Home Super Saver Scheme, but perceived complexity is turning them off.
- Lucy Dean
Nature the next frontier but boards lack skills
Biodiversity is critical for maintaining a liveable planet, but a deficit of skills at the board level is proving a roadblock in accounting for its value.
- Lucy Dean
Wealthiest Australians
Can’t find the boat you want? For $2.3m Sam will help you build it
Property development isn’t always a 9am to 5pm job, Sam Beck says, so he created a hobby business custom-building multimillion dollar catamarans.
- 30 mins ago
- Yolanda Redrup
Rich Lister Geminder plans board shake-up if Pact bid falls short
Raphael Geminder may need to wait until June next year to try to delist the underperforming Pact Group, as his takeover bid closes after 13 extensions in nine months.
- Simon Evans
Laundys add Sydney’s Light Brigade Hotel to pub empire
Family patriarch Arthur Laundy says he knows the Light Brigade Hotel well, having ridden his scooter around it as child when his parents owned the nearby Woollahra Hotel.
- Larry Schlesinger
This Month
Three unorthodox ways to get into the housing market
In the face of rising property prices, innovative solutions are arising for aspiring property owners.
- Michelle Bowes
- Opinion
- EOFY
Five things for SMSFs to do before June 30
Think of it as the world’s most boring, but incredibly profitable, game with the Tax Office.
- Tim Mackay
- Opinion
- First-home buyers
Why Gen Z’s share portfolios should be free of capital gains tax
There’s little prospect of housing affordability improving, so the portfolios of young savers should get the same tax-free treatment as the family home.
- James Weir
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
- Opinion
- ESG Summit
After the Voice, October 7, should business say less?
How should companies respond to contested social and political issues not directly related to core business?
- Patrick Langrell
May
How to invest like a Rich Lister and beat the market
There are 37 listed stocks linked to Rich List members, and their ability to deliver above-market returns is impressive.
- Updated
- James Thomson
- Opinion
- Bonds
Opportunities aplenty for yield buyers
There is a rich array of opportunities available for investors searching for relatively safe and liquid yields.
- Christopher Joye
- Exclusive
- Rich List
Australia’s wealthiest 200 now control $625b
Technology is back, resources rode a roller coaster and property growth returned, giving Australia’s Rich Listers an 11pc boost to their total fortune.
- Updated
- Yolanda Redrup and Michael Bailey
How the rich use this tax strategy to get richer
For many people, debt is a scary word. But debt can help build wealth so long as you’re careful about it.
- Michelle Bowes
Decades after tycoon’s death, his family is suing each other over a mansion
Tech tycoon’s widow says she felt ‘used and abused’ in a dispute that pitted her three children against her – and each other.
- Duncan Hughes
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Ageing Rich Listers approach wealth dispersal watershed
Forty-five of the 200 Rich List entries, holding about $140 billion in wealth, are aged over 80.
- The AFR View
How we report the Rich List (and why so many don't want to be on it)
Rich List co-editor Yolanda Redrup explains how we do the valuations that determine who makes the cut.
- Updated
- Opinion
- Portfolio management
The economy is turning and your investment portfolio needs attention
Residential mortgage-backed securities might be a good option in a weakening economy.
- Giselle Roux
- Opinion
- Super Q&A
I’m a high earner about to encounter Division 293 tax. What can I do?
You may want to consider reducing your taxable income below $250,000 by claiming allowable deductions such as donations to charity.
- John Wasiliev
- No. 176
- Rich List
Rich Lister Wes Maas’ three rules for business decisions
The former NRL player has built a billion-dollar company through hard work and diversification.
- Yolanda Redrup
- Exclusive
- Rich List
More than half the 11 new Rich Listers are already billionaires
Two cryptocurrency giants, an under-the-radar mattress mogul, a former mechanic and an ex-NRL player are among 17 new and returning faces on this year’s Rich List.
- Yolanda Redrup and Michael Bailey
Baby Boomers are loaded. Why are they so stingy?
Recent evidence has cast doubt on the notion that a spending splurge by those born between 1946 and 1964 is on the way.
- The Economist
- Opinion
- Shopping centres
Why shopping centres are a good investment prospect
Population growth, a robust employment market and rising incomes will stoke retail spending, and much of the extra money will end up in shopping centres.
- Sam Tamblyn
Perth’s $150m club is among highest in the world
Perth, with a population of more than 2 million, has 64 centi-millionaires. That places it among the richest cities in the world by that measure.
- Harry Brumpton, Paul-Alain Hunt and Patrick Winters
Husic calls for lower corporate taxes
Minister for Industry and Science Ed Husic says the Labor government would consider revising the company tax rate.
- Updated
