How volatility in the markets can sometimes work in your favour. Jun Bei Liu is Lead Portfolio Manager of the Tribeca Alpha Plus Fund at Tribeca Investment Partners, with just under $1.1 billion funds under management. Liu explains the long-short investing strategy used, the rewards of volunteering, and what to watch for in the coming […]
Businesses are hiring entrepreneurial spirit and expertise to develop their next big thing. BCG Digital Ventures is the business building firm and innovation hub of the Boston Consulting Group. It partners with corporations to invent, launch and scale innovative businesses that might be new, standalone companies or ones developed within the client organisation. Kate O’Keeffe, […]
Forbes Australia has a sneak peek at the contenders for this year’s Rigg Design Prize 2022. For the first time in the National Gallery of Victoria’s history, the Rigg Design Prize national exhibition will focus on advertising and communications – and how creativity inspires innovation. Spray on skin, WIFI, IVF and Google Maps – these […]
Nick Bell, a master of reinvention and one of Australia’s well known entrepreneurs, explains why he will never have his own office again. As a teenager, Nick Bell was desperate to escape life on the family farm in Victoria. He wanted to move to the bright lights of London the second he finished his last […]
Most CEOs say they won’t talk about emotional and mental health. But global managing director of T2 Tea Derek Muirhead says the stigma needs to end. Derek Muirhead, global managing director of T2 Tea, admits the past two years had a “huge impact” on all people – even the chief executives of global companies. “The reality was, you weren’t […]
More than 1000 athletes across 24 sports are connecting with fans for a purpose. Swysh founder Michael Roth was in San Francisco in 2019 and needed a wedding present for a close friend in Ireland. He wanted something special. He knew the friend was a fan of the 1970s sitcom Happy Days, and as it […]
Judith Neilson’s art space and journalism institute create controversy, but are places that inspire and support ideas that can change the world. Why’s that guy wearing a gun?” asks the Forbes Australia videographer as we pull up outside the sculptured concrete home of Judith Neilson on a formerly mean inner-city street. Actually, it’s a walkie-talkie, […]
Australian creators are building empires from their social media clout, and charting the future of advertising, media and business. Key Takeaways Around 200 million social media users are classified as “creators” Creatornomics: How the creator economy has caught the attention of investors Rowi Singh Famous for out-of-this-world make-up tutorials, Rowi Singh has more than half […]
The creator economy has caught the attention of investors across the globe. As creators continue to harness their growing online influence, these new entrepreneurs are changing the media and advertising landscape as we know it. Key Takeaways When Matt Ford and Jack Steele told their fellow tradies on the construction sites they worked on around […]
From a school science camp to a $1.5 billion merger. This is the story of Alex Harper and Angus Goldman, the co-founders of Australian digital assets exchange Swyftx. Key Takeaways Alex Harper and Angus Goldman co-founded crypto exchange Swyftx in 2018 after meeting at a school camp By 2021, trade volumes on Swyftx reached up […]