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2019 Financial Review Young

Rich List reveals Australia’s
wealthiest women worth $2.8
billion
She’s the glamorous, inspirational half of Australia’s fittest power
couple — and new mum Kayla Itsines is also making serious bank.

Alexis Carey@carey_alexis

news.com.auOCTOBER 24, 201912:19PM

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We’ve seen them dominate catwalks, movie screens and social media feeds
— but some of Australia’s most famous women have also built multimillion-
dollar empires at the same time.
The 2019 Financial Review Young Rich List has just been released, ranking
our 100 wealthiest self-made young people under 40.
Of course, it’s filled with the usual male tech billionaires and property
tycoons, with Atlassian co-founders Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott
Farquhar topping the list yet again with stunning fortunes of $13.499 billion
and $13.215 billion respectively.
But there’s also a clear trend of young, well-known and glamorous
Australian women also making bank.
RICHEST WOMEN
Australia’s nine richest women under 40 have a colossal combined wealth of
more than $2.8 billion, the 2019 Young Rich List reveals.
The coveted title of Australia’s richest young woman goes to Canva’s
Melanie Perkins, 33, who is worth $1.350 billion.
Envato’s Cyan Ta’eed, 38, was next in line with $799 million, followed by
28-year-old fitness queen Kayla Itsines’ $486 million wealth.
Ms Itsines and fiance Tobi Pearce owe the bulk of their fortune to the success
of their fitness app Sweat, with subscribers forking out $19.95 each month in
exchange for fitness and meal plans, shopping lists and exercise advice.
But while Ms Itsines’ fame and influence has been growing for some time,
only last year the extent of her wealth was revealed when 2018 Rich List
editor Julie-Anne Sprague started digging around.
“As part of this, she took a closer look at those women who are turning the
tables, discovering that Sweat, the fitness app that Kayla Itsines created with
her fiance Tobi Pearce, is spinning off a lot more money than anyone outside
the business realised,” Australian Financial Review Magazine editor
Matthew Drummond said at the time.

Margot Robbie and Jennifer Hawkins made their rich list debut this year, while Miranda Kerr and Kayla Itsines
again earned a place.Source:Supplied
This year, Australia’s fourth-richest woman is Miranda Kerr, who has a net
worth of $52 million from her Kora Organics skincare brand, which she
forged separately from her successful modelling career.
She’s moved up to the 33rd spot on the list, up from 52 last year.
Online fashion maven Jane Lu, 33, the founder and CEO of Showpo, is the
fifth-richest woman under 40 with $36 million, followed by Triangl
swimwear founder Erin Deering, 35, who has a $35 million net worth.
Wolf of Wall Street star Margot Robbie, 29, and model and swimwear
entrepreneur Jennifer Hawkins, 35, have both debuted on the list with twin
$35 million fortunes, while Alarna Longes, 40, who co-founded
Clearskincare Clinics, is our ninth-richest young woman thanks to her $30
million fortune.
However, only nine women made the top 100 this year, down from 10 in
2018 — although three of those were in the overall top 10.
THE TOP 10
Mr Cannon-Brookes and Mr Farquhar, both 39, have topped the overall list
for the eighth year in a row with their stunning fortunes.
Fellow billionaires Melanie Perkins, 33, and Cliff Obreacht, 32, who co-
founded graphic design software company Canva, both share the third
position with a combined wealth of $1.350 billion, followed by Envato’s
Collis Ta’eed, 40, and Cyan Ta’eed, 38, in fourth place, with $799 million in
the bank.
Ori Allon, 39, from Compass Real Estate rounded out the top five with $747
million behind him, followed by 38-year-old Peter Greensill, co-owner of
Greensill Farming and board member of the Greensill company, in sixth
place with $745 million, up from $412 million last year.

Atlassian co-CEOs Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar topped the list for the eighth-straight year. Source:
AtlassianSource:Supplied
The first top 10 debutant is seventh-placed Shangjin “Jin” Lin, 30, the son of
Chinese property billionaire Yi Ling and the founder and group managing
director of property company Aqualand, who is worth $659 million, while
eighth place went to luxury developer Tim Gurner, 37, with $608 million —
down from $631 million and third place in 2018.
Ninth place went to 29-year-old Afterpay boss Nicholas Molnar, who has
amassed $564 million compared with $341 million in 2018.
And Australia’s fittest couple, Ms Itsines, 28, and Mr Pearce, 27, shared 10th
place with a combined $486 million.
The wealth of the Adelaide power couple — who welcomed first child Arna
Leia Pearce in April — has not increased from last year when they were
ranked fifth and sixth.
THE 2019 LIST
This year, the 100 richest young Aussies have a collective $41.2 billion — a
staggering figure nearly double 2018’s total of $23.5 billion.
In 2019, tech tycoons were the clear winners, with people behind “software-
as-a-service” businesses taking out 11 spots, while 25 went to e-commerce
figures.
But sport has emerged as a huge wealth generator this year due mostly to
talented young Aussies storming the United States National Basketball
Association (NBA).
Six Australian NBA players made it on the list this year, including five first-
timers such as 23-year-old Ben Simmons, while other rich-list athletes
include Adam Scott, Andrew Bogut, Jason Day, Daniel Ricciardo, Michael
Clarke, Tim Cahill and Lleyton Hewitt.

Aussie NBA champ Ben Simmons made the list for the first time in 2019. Picture: Elsa/Getty ImagesSource:Getty
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Editor Michael Bailey said it was interesting how our young entrepreneurs
were “thinking about business, growth and success”.
“The Financial Review Rich List really demonstrates how the wealthiest self-
made young Australians are growing their businesses at a rate that is
challenging legacy ASX companies,” he said.
“It’s fascinating to see businesses like Canva that is just five years old that
are now worth seven times as much as Here There & Everywhere, the 30-
year-old, ASX-listed media and entertainment company.”
 Meanwhile, Drummond said while technology was still the best sector for
gaining entry onto the coveted list, the 2019 ranking was “notable for the
number of sportspeople, especially basketballers”.
Pedestrian. TV co-founders Oscar Martin and Chris Wirasinha narrowly
missed out on a place this year with their $27 million fortune, while former
rich-listers Mark McDonald and Josiah Humphrey disappeared this year after
the sudden collapse of their tech developer start-up Appster in 2018.
The November issue of AFR Magazine, including the Young Rich List, will
be published tomorrow.
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