Andrew Hobbs

6 days ago | afr.com | Michelle Bowes |Andrew Hobbs |Lucy Dean

Michelle Bowes, Andrew Hobbs and Lucy DeanMay 9, 2025 – 11.24am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? For Jamie Nemtsas, principal of Melbourne-based financial advisory Wattle Partners, the plan to lift the tax rate on the earnings of superannuation balances above $3 million to 30 per cent isn’t just creating a headache for him at work. It’s also personal. Loading...

1 week ago | afr.com | Andrew Hobbs |Zoe Samios

Tim Hamilton’s uncle managed the North Sydney Bears for 30 years. In his playing days, the now 57-year-old was good enough to compete for the club in the Jersey Flegg Cup – NSW’s under-21s rugby league competition. But he drifted away from the team when it fell out of the premiership league 25 years ago, after being a foundation club in a NSW competition that has since grown into an increasingly national behemoth, with multibillion-dollar broadcasting deals. Loading...

1 month ago | afr.com | Lucy Dean |Andrew Hobbs |Michelle Bowes

Skip to navigationSkip to contentSkip to footerHelp using this website - Accessibility statementTrading platforms experienced record volumes earlier this week as retail investors – apparently unperturbed by the turmoil – bought bruised American tech stocks, global ETFs and gold. But by Thursday the impulse to “buy the dip” had switched to “sell the rip”, according to Gemma Dale, the director of SMSF and investor behaviour at Nabtrade, which notched up recording trading volumes on Monday.