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RICH PICKINGS: Gina's prospects for influence

COMMENTARY:When it comes to buying influence, there's more than one way to skin a cat if you're a rich list member, as Gina Rinehart and Graeme Wood have shown.
3 Feb 2012 6:08 PM

Rinehart tops Forbes Asia rich list

Gerry Harvey drops six places on Harvey Norman share drop.
2 Feb 2012 3:29 PM

RICH PICKINGS: The 12 to watch in 2012

COMMENTARY:Gerry Harvey's Magic Millions is normally a good guide to how Australia's wealthy are travelling, and with prices at the event declining, it will interesting to see how the rich list travels in the year ahead.
13 Jan 2012 6:08 PM

RICH PICKINGS: Trashing Transpacific

COMMENTARY:Terry Peabody's lawsuit against Transpacific holds more than a touch of irony, but it's the type of thing that can happen when the founder of a company casts such a big shadow over it.
6 Jan 2012 5:30 PM

Rich shun shares in favour of cash: report

Wealthy abandoning sharemarket investments.
27 Dec 2011 11:01 AM

RICH PICKINGS: The best and worst of 2011

COMMENTARY:While guarding against a volatile economy, our rich listers have provided plenty of excitement this year. Here are the highlights.
16 Dec 2011 5:35 PM

RICH PICKINGS: Tracing Rinehart's commodity rout

COMMENTARY:Gina Rinehart tops our end-of-year rich list, but her wealth has taken a major hit as commodity prices tumble. Still, she's not the biggest loser in 2011.
9 Dec 2011 6:08 PM

RICH PICKINGS: Packer's handy profit plays

COMMENTARY:The sale of cosmetics company Jurlique is just one example of many successes produced by the Packer family's particular style of venture capital.
2 Dec 2011 5:59 PM

RICH PICKINGS: Billion-dollar blues

COMMENTARY:Big names such as Packer, Lowy and Harvey were never richer than in the year before the GFC, and their losses since have been monumental.
25 Nov 2011 5:37 PM

RICH PICKINGS: Tracking Wall Street's big guns

COMMENTARY:Wall Street hedge fund manager John Paulson appears to be tinkering at the edges of his investment strategy, but other titans are behaving differently.
18 Nov 2011 5:45 PM

NSW calls for GST reforms: report

NSW, wealthy states want larger share of revenues.
12 Nov 2011 7:57 AM

RICH PICKINGS: Groupon's quiet billionaires

COMMENTARY:Behind last week's gloriously successful Groupon float are two freshly-minted billionaire investors with long, somewhat controversial, entrepreneurial careers.
11 Nov 2011 5:39 PM

RICH PICKINGS: The power of one (per cent)

COMMENTARY:There's one voice missing from the 'Occupy' protests which have spread from Wall Street and, contrary to expectations, it might be sympathetic to the cause.
4 Nov 2011 6:08 PM

RICH PICKINGS: Melbourne Cup magnates

COMMENTARY:The race that stops the nation is upon us, but it means even more to some of the billionaire owners who pour their lives and fortunes into stables of contenders.
28 Oct 2011 6:09 PM

How Europe's richest woman lost her fortune

COMMENTARY:For over two years Liliane Bettencourt has been locked in a bitter estate dispute with her only daughter. The case judgement is a lesson for all rich listers.
19 Oct 2011 10:10 AM

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Rich Pickings. Commentary on Wealth and Luxury

Rich Pickings is Business Spectator’s own commentary on the wealth, luxury and business dealings of business owners and entrepreneurs.

Rich Pickings gives readers an insight into the dealings and manoeuvrings of the rich list members.

Rich Pickings also gleams practical tips, hints and advice from some of Australia’s millionaires, billionaires and generally financially successful on how they run their companies and businesses to generate profit and fortune.

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