Events

Hamilton Wealth Management in conjunction with Cooper Investors hosted a dinner with Damon Kitney author of The Price of Fortune, The untold story of being James Packer, a Biography, to discuss his book shortly after its publication.

The Dinner was held at Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club on Thursday 22nd November 2018.

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James Packer turns to Greek mythology in an attempt to explain the most exciting yet tumultuous period of his 50 years on earth.

‘I was like Icarus,’ the billionaire tells his biographer, journalist Damon Kitney, of the heady days of 2016 when he broke up with pop star Mariah Carey, abandoned living in Hollywood and Israel, left the global casino stage, and divided the family fortune in a bitter separation from his sister.

‘I flew too close to the sun.’

With these words, Packer delves for the first time into the story behind his stunning public revelation in mid-March 2018 of his battle with mental health issues, which forced him to resign from the board of the Crown casino company he owns and loves.

Never before has a member of the Packer family co-operated with a writer to tell their story. In his biography, The Price of Fortune, one of the nation’s richest and most psycho-analysed men opens up in an attempt to make sense of his roller coaster life and to tell the human story of being James Douglas Packer. Of how his wealth, charm and intellect took him to such exciting places. Yet how his trusting the wrong people and his rash actions cost him his friends, his health and, most importantly, his reputation on the global stage — and how he is now working on getting it back.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR (from his website)

Damon Kitney has spent more than two decades in financial journalism, including 16 years at the Australian Financial Review in a variety of writing and editing roles in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra and Perth, including five years as a deputy editor of the newspaper. Since 2010 he has been the Victorian business editor at The Australian, specialising in writing the untold personal stories of the nation’s richest and most private people

Hamilton Wealth Management and Wingate Group jointly hosted a lunch on Thursday 25th October 2018 at the offices of Wingate Group, Level 48, 101 Collins Street, Melbourne for the clients of Hamilton Wealth Management.

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Hamilton Wealth Management hosted Paul Bassat on Wednesday 10th October 2018, at Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club on the topic of Entrepreneurship.

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Paul is a co-founder of Square Peg Capital.

Prior to founding Square Peg, Paul co-founded SEEK in 1997 and served as Joint CEO from 1997-2011. SEEK is the world’s largest online employment business and has market-leading businesses in Australia, China, Brazil, Mexico and throughout South-East Asia.

Paul is a director of Wesfarmers Ltd and a Commissioner of the Australian Football League (AFL).  He is also on the board of Innovation Australia, the Peter MacCallum Cancer Foundation and the P&S Bassat Foundation. Paul started his career as a lawyer and practised for 6 years.

Paul holds a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Commerce from The University of Melbourne.

Hamilton Wealth Management in conjunction with Janus Henderson Investors were thrilled to host Mark Joiner on Wednesday 8th August 2018, at Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club on the topic of Investing with Values.

There can be no doubt that our current system of business and government is under pressure. QE has acted to bring future investment returns into the present, civil society is increasingly vocal in demanding a more broadly based contribution from large corporates, wages growth has stalled and unions are demanding a rebalancing of the returns accruing to capital and labour, sovereign debt levels have left the entire system more vulnerable to a financial crisis, there is plenty of evidence that we have met and in some cases already passed important planetary system boundaries, and there is declining trust in institutions and perhaps in democracy itself.

The combination of these factors is heightening the potential for discontinuous change. Mark brought his experience as a strategist, as a senior banking executive and, more recently, as someone immersed in the asset management industry (in both its traditional and its impact investing forms) to put some perspective to these challenges. He is and has been also an active participant in various environmental and social initiatives and is still actively working to harmonise the intersection of business interests and sustainability, in all its facets.

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Values or Value? Climate change through a financial risk (and opportunity) lens.

Hamilton Wealth Management in conjunction with DNR Capital hosted Sarah Barker, Special Counsel at MinterEllison, on Thursday 31st May 2018, at Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club.

Sarah Barker is a Special Counsel at the Asia-Pacifics largest commercial law firm, MinterEllison, and a director of one of Australia’s largest superannuation funds, the $26-billion Emergency Services & State Super.

She has two decades experience as a corporate lawyer, and is regarded as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change and investment governance.

Sarah’s expertise on climate-related financial risks has been called upon by international institutions from the Bank of England to the OECD, European Commission and United Nations PRI. She sits on the Technical Working Group of the London-based Climate Disclosure Standards Board, teaches as part of the international faculty of Cambridge University’s Institute for Sustainability Leadership, and is the Australian legal advisor to the University of Oxford in the Commonwealth Climate & Law Initiative (a research and outreach project on directors’ duties in relation to climate change in Australia, the UK, Canada and South Africa, launched by the Prince of Wales at CHOGM in late 2015).

Closer to home, she advises a number of Australia’s largest insurers, superannuation funds, fund managers and banks, and works
closely with financial services stakeholders from the Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand and the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority.

Sarah brings an overtly practical, governance-focused perspective to her advice from her own experience as a director and advisory board member. In addition to her role on the board of Emergency Services & State Super, she is currently a nonexecutive director of the Responsible Investment Association Australasia, and has been actively involved as an examiner, lecturer and course materials author for the Australian Institute of Company Directors for more than a decade.

She has recently been featured on the ABC’s FourCorners program, and in AFR Boss Magazine.

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Hamilton Wealth Management in conjunction with Altius Asset Management held a dinner with Dr Don Stammer, on Thursday 19th April 2018.

Don provided an update on the Australian economy and discussed his outlook for Investment markets in 2018, leading a discussion around these themes.

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A copy of Don’s speaking notes are atttached, please click below.

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