Elizabeth Knight

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Elizabeth Knight

Business columnist June 19, 2025 — 3.37pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It says a lot that economists have created a new term – “everyday millionaires”, or for short, EMILLIs – to describe the rapidly growing number of people whose net wealth sits between $US1 million and $US5million ($1.5 million and $7.7 million).

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Elizabeth Knight

By elizabeth knight June 18, 2025 — 2.53pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Drum roll, please! The international aviation industry Oscars have been awarded for the best airlines for 2025 and – spoiler alert – Qantas missed out on being in the top 10. But it did achieve what could be described as “best improved” in gaining 10 spots to come in at No.14 – up from last year’s not-so-favourable rank of 24.

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Elizabeth Knight

Business columnist June 17, 2025 — 3.25pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Since the first interest rate cut in February, home lending has not just grown – it’s exploded, according to figures released by the National Australia Bank around its mortgage growth. This is FOMO (fear of missing out) on an industrial scale.

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Business columnist June 16, 2025 — 3.35pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. As the gatekeeper of foreign investment in Australia, all eyes will be on federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers. How he responds to an Abu Dhabi-based, state-controlled consortium putting $30 billion on the table for the oil and gas giant Santos, which holds a big swag of our critical energy infrastructure, will be a defining moment for energy policy.

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Elizabeth Knight

Business columnist June 12, 2025 — 3.11pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. What drives shareholders into a tailspin, a cohort of prospective parents into crisis, and sends a chief executive packing? An IVF company admitting to not one, but two incidents of embryo implant mix-ups. Monash IVF must now have reserved a chapter in crisis management textbooks as it joins the ranks of the reputation-damaged corporate lepers.