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Articles by Peter Mancell
Blazing a new trail
CNN was the ticker code of Patrick Hodgens' very first stock pick. Selecting it at the age of 13, it also changed the course of his life. Hodgens fondly recalls the moment he started his investment journey, taking part in a share competition as part of his high school commerce class. ... if I can keep clients happy with performance, and I can keep the team motivated with career options, the rest of it will look after itself in terms of profitability and success.
The right price
Iress chief executive Marcus Price never yearned for positions of influence or power. Instead, his career unfurled organically from a fervour to bring about change and a curiosity to explore 'what could be'. From his earliest days in the corporate world - a realm completely alien to him - Price was enamoured by the possibilities of transformation and industry-wide structural change. An early career interview with Boston Consulting Group stoked the flames of this fascination.
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Stretching one kilometre along Sydney's eastern coastline is the iconic Bondi Beach. Some 2.7 million tourists come to marvel at its beauty every year while others, like Count chief executive Hugh Humphrey, are lucky enough to call it home. Humphrey spent much of his childhood tossed around the powerful surf, whether bodyboarding after school or taking part in Nippers on weekends. It instilled in him a love of both the ocean and of Sydney, the city he's carved out an impressive career in.
Tailwinds abound
It's summer holidays, and a young Julian Biggins is picking apricots on a farm not far from his hometown of Kingston on Murray. He'll only make about $50 from his week of labour under the sweltering South Australian sun, but to the hard-working teen, that $50 is choice, flexibility and freedom. Perhaps unbeknownst to Biggins, this dogma will serve him well in his future career as a co-founder and joint chief executive of MA Financial.
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