April
Henri Aram: the 101-year-old market gadfly
A reforming pioneer in the investment advice industry, Henri Aram was also outspoken about the operation of finance markets and the behaviour of big corporates.
- Andrew Clark
OJ Simpson, ‘trial of the century’ defendant, dies
The former American football star was the murder accused in one of the most notorious court cases in 20th-century America.
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- Ken Ritter
- Opinion
- Opinion
The man who discovered people hate losing more than they like winning
Daniel Kahneman was one of the few psychologists to win the Nobel Prize for economics.
- Andrew Leigh
March
Author Daniel Kahneman, who exposed investors’ irrationality, dies
The psychologist’s work casting doubt on the logic of decision-making helped spawn the field of behavioral economics and won him a Nobel Prize.
- Stephen Miller
Vale Charles Williams, corporate poacher turned gatekeeper
The influential regulator was born, raised and worked in the heart of the Melbourne business establishment but became a key oversight figure.
- Andrew Clark
From housing commission flats to law firm CEO
Long-term head of HWL Ebsworth Juan Martinez built the nation’s largest legal partnership on the back of hard lessons from a harsh childhood.
- Michael Pelly
Dick Humphry, inventor of shareholder democracy, dies at 85
A man whose habits and approach were set in the “old school”, Richard Humphry nevertheless led a technology-driven revolution in Australia’s financial markets.
- Andrew Clark
February
The judge who made business better
When the economy opened up in the 1980s, Andrew Rogers helped Australia become a more commercially sophisticated country, NSW’s chief justice writes.
- Andrew Bell
- Opinion
- Arts
‘The last cheque that I write bounces’: vale Harold Mitchell
The advertising pioneer, who died last week aged 81, struggled with personal challenges, including alcoholism, weight and marriage failure.
- Aaron Patrick
The pioneering judge who revolutionised Australia’s courts
Andrew Rogers fundamentally changed the way commercial disputes were handled when he was on the NSW Supreme Court in the late 1980s.
- Michael Pelly
Lowitja O’Donoghue, ‘the greatest Aboriginal leader’
Indigenous trailblazer Lowitja O’Donoghue is being celebrated as a giant of modern Australia after her death at the weekend.
- Michael Pelly
January
Lang Walker, the developer with a touch for timing
The Rich Lister who died over the weekend aged 78 spotted change before most people and enjoyed the freedom of a private company to move quickly to tap it.
- Michael Bleby
John Pilger, controversial campaigning journalist, dead at 84
John Pilger, who has died aged 84, was a journalist and documentary maker for whom the word uncompromising might have been invented.
- Telegraph Obituaries
December 2023
Sandra Day O’Connor, first woman on US Supreme Court, is dead
The rancher’s daughter wielded great power over American law from her seat at the centre of the court’s ideological spectrum. She was 93.
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- Linda Greenhouse
Shane MacGowan, hard-drinking poet of The Pogues, dies
The singer melded punk with Irish traditional music and wrote huge hits in the 80s and 90s – but was also known for his on-stage meltdowns and drug abuse.
- Conor Humphries
November 2023
Henry Kissinger, US diplomat and Nobel winner, dies at 100
He was a pivotal US secretary of state under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, who oversaw America’s involvement in and withdrawal from the war in Vietnam.
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- Tony Diver
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Charlie Munger gave Buffett the blueprint. Here’s his great lesson
The legendary investor might have played straight man to Warren Buffett, but it was his blueprint that created a $1.2 trillion giant.
- James Thomson
How Munger helped Buffett build Berkshire
Berkshire Hathaway could not have reached its present status without “Charlie’s inspiration, wisdom and participation”, Warren Buffett said in a statement.
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- Noah Buhayar
Former US first lady Rosalynn Carter dies at 96
Carter was seen as unassuming and quiet before coming to Washington in 1977, but developed into an eloquent speaker, campaigner and activist.
- Will Dunham
- Opinion
- Opinion
The broker who made Londoners ‘own more Aussie shares than they should’
The perma-tanned “Rocky” Cumming became the Jack Thompson of London broking with his generous spirit, humour and irreverence.
- Phil Beard