After taking a spell during COVID and staging a cut-down event last year, the horse power and glamour of Polo in the City galloped back to Sydney’s Centennial Park last weekend. As in previous years, two four-chukka matches were played on a field about a third the size of a full one (which usually measures […]
Get ready for a Melbourne Cup-day rate rise was the consensus opinion from an economics panel at the Forbes Business summit in Sydney.
After 15 years heading up the Sydney Dance Company, artistic director, Raf Bonachela has returned to his roots and choreographed an emotional journey set to a diverse soundtrack from his native Spain. One of Raf Bonachela’s early memories is taking road trips with his dad who grew up in the deep South of Spain. He […]
Newgate Stud managing director Henry Field describes his work as venture capitalism, but in bloodstock. He reveals his passion for horses and how that drove his mission to build one of Australia’s largest stallion operations, now home to Extreme Choice, arguably the country’s most elite studhorse.
Australia is suffering from a mental health crisis. Suicide and self-harm are increasing, and some are linking it to technology. Meanwhile, in Bhutan, there is a nuanced vision for creating happiness but also, a push to digitalise. It is also seeing a serious brain drain. Where are they going? To Australia. Forbes Australia’s Stewart Hawkins […]
Alphinity’s Global Portfolio Manager, Mary Manning, started as an investment banking analyst working in New York, London and Moscow. She has also worked for Soros Funds Management and Oaktree Capital. The Alphinity Global Fund has about $10 billion in funds under management. She speaks about the offshore investment landscape, why earnings are important, why you […]
Tim Sims, co-founder and managing director of Pacific Equity Partners [PEP] – with $9 billion AUM, talks to Forbes Australia’s managing editor Stewart Hawkins about public versus private equity, the debt market, interest rates, why investing in startups isn’t what the firm does, the future of deal cadence and whether we’re now in a “difficult” […]
Tim Reynolds, one of the founders of quant firm Jane Street Capital, which now trades trillions of dollars’ worth of securities annually, stepped back from the company more than a decade ago to concentrate on building art schools and private resorts to support them in some of the world’s most beautiful but economically challenged locations.
Australian actor CLAUDIA KARVAN is about to make her first mainstage appearance in almost 25 years, after spending the past two decades working on films and TV series such as The Secret Life of Us, Love My Way, Puberty Blues and Bump. Here she talks about life, happiness and what brings her joy. What is […]
In an exclusive interview with Forbes Australia, Platinum CEO Andrew Clifford reveals his thoughts on this year’s investment landscape.