Billionaires
You can’t have too much money, happiness researcher finds
When it comes to money buying happiness, more is better, says a study that has found the correlation between wealth and well-being does not plateau once incomes reach a certain point.
- by Conrad Quilty-Harper
Latest
World’s biggest luxury tycoons lose $25 billion as demand slows
As sales of luxury goods and beauty products decline in some regions, so have the fortunes of a clutch of the world’s richest people.
- by Tara Patel
Opinion
Retail
Amazon’s radical plan to fight off Shein and Temu
Amazon looks worried that it can’t beat the two Chinese juggernauts of low-priced online retailing. So it’s decided to join them.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Britain’s richest family spent more on pet dog than they paid their servants, court told
The billionaire Hinduja family is accused of trafficking and exploitation of staff at their Lake Geneva villa.
- by Hugo Miller
The meeting where Wall Street billionaires tripped over themselves to back Trump
Before 12 New Yorkers branded Donald Trump a felon, a very different kind of jury had reached a verdict of its own at a ritzy Manhattan hotel.
- by Amanda L Gordon and Sridhar Natarajan
Opinion
Elon Musk
It’s high noon for Musk as his $80 billion payday looms
Tesla shareholders are expected to approve yet again the largest incentive package in US history. If they do, the unprecedented package will no doubt be challenged in court again.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Billionaire reveals plans to dive to the Titanic after submersible tragedy
Shortly after the OceanGate disaster last year, a 74-year-old real estate billionaire got in touch with the co-founder of a company that makes submarines.
- by Emily Schmall and Orlando MayorquÃn
Opinion
Executive pay
$85 billion battle: The drummer who started the fight to block the biggest payday in history
Richard Tornetta is an unlikely campaigner against one of the world’s richest men.
- by James Titcomb
Catering to the ultra-rich is a booming business in WA
There’s a new sign that the Perth elite are starting to tip over the line separating the merely rich from the fabulously so.
- by Harry Brumpton, Paul-Alain Hunt and Patrick Winters
