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Aussie retailers and manufacturers are giving mining, property and tech billionaires a run for their money on this year's Rich List.

Gerry Harvey (left) and Solomon Lew (right). Source: Harvey Norman/AAP. Compared to the UK and the US, Australia has an unusually large number of billionaires who hold the majority of their wealth in public companies listed on the ASX. After 50 years of wheeling and dealing, Kerry Stokes is near the top of the pile given that his 58.5% stake in Seven Group Holdings is now worth $4.59 billion. The Australian’s Rich List valued him at $7.26 billion earlier this year. Stokes is unique in many respects, particularly given that he was an orphan whose wealth is entirely self made. He’s also t...

Share Andrew Forrest has traded in his long-serving Global 5000 for the Bombardier Global Express 7500 (pictured)  The Bombardier Global 7500 is the world’s largest and longest range business jet. Pictured is one of the plane's four cabins Media billionaire Kerry Stokes' plane arrived in Sydney in February after Melbourne property developer John Gandel was the first Australian to grab one. Mr Forrest was granted various exemptions to travel extensively overseas during the coronavirus pandemic. He made headlines earlier this year after revealing he contracted the deadly virus while travell...

Jeremy Reid disappoints investors – again Save Share Ex-Young Rich lister Jeremy Reid copped a two-year ASIC ban from providing financial advice in 2013 over the regulator’s concerns that in his role at Everest Financial he had prioritised redemption requests made by family members over those made by members of the Everest Babcock & Brown Income Fund. By the time the ban was handed down, he had long been living in the United States and working on his new samples start-up. Five years later, he managed to list said start-up on the ASX, breezily raising $8 million with the backing of ...

Nothing fearless about girls’ regatta decision We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Save Normal text size It looks like one rule for the boys and another for the girls. Regatta season is fast approaching, with two key school events scheduled for later this month. There’s the Head of Schoolgirls Regatta held on March 12-14 on the Barwon River outside Geelong with the Associated Public Schools of Victoria Sport Regatta (mainly boys but which does include girls) on March 20 at Lake Nagambie. Guess which event is allowing spectators? Y...