GOVERNMENT and regulators must act to ensure standards in the financial planning industry are lifted, together with improved disclosure standards, according to the Association of
ART collections owned by corporations or wealthy families are hung and displayed in foyers throughout the country.
International auction house Sotheby’s has made an art of advising businesses how to maximise the benefits of having art.
WITH its strong focus on developing oil and gas linkages between the US and Australia, the American Chamber of Commerce is leading its fifth trade mission to Houston, Texas, in May for the Offshore Technology Conference.
A DELEGATION from the Chinese Export Commodity Fair, also known as the Canton Fair, was in Perth last Friday to promote the Trade Fair to WA businesses.
PERTH venture capital outfit Paramount Capital Limited has change tack, deciding against a $2.2 million initial public offering for 40 per cent of the company’s equity.
IN India during a tour of SE Asia and East Asia last week Trade Minister Mark Vaile led a delegation of more than 35 Australian companies that participated in the 14th India-Austr
The experts stick to what they know best when evaluating collectibles’ potential, as Gary Kleyn reports.
OPINION seems to be divided on what will emerge as the next big thing in collectibles, depending on what the ‘expert’s’ field of expertise is.
NOT too many were smiling at the Perth BHP-Billiton room on September 26 last year when some of the State’s history went under the hammer at Christie’s auction in London.
The Western Australian Trade Enquiry Service is operated by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Western Australian (CCI) with the support of the WA Government’s Department of
In this week’s look at the collectibles market Gary Kleyn examines security concerns.
TRADITIONAL investment markets may be down but in the collecting business the opposite seems to be true.
A BITTER battle for board representation at listed property group Aliquot Asset Management took an unexpected turn this week with two of the opposing camps reaching an uneasy truce and agreeing to share equal numbers of board positions.
The Western Australian Trade Enquiry Service is operated by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Western Australian (CCI) with the support of the WA Government’s Department of
DIESEL fuel users, particularly in the mining and agricultural sector face an uncertain future with the introduction of the Energy Grant Credit Scheme into Federal Parliament last week.
BLUEWAVE Seafood, a Western Australian processor and exporter of lobster, has sent a container load of premium seafood delicacies to gourmet upmarket French retailer Fauchon in ti
BESTON Wine Industry Trust, which in October last year announced the purchase of Sirens Vineyard in the Margaret River region for $1.87 million, is going to the market with a new
THE ballooning number of credit cards on issue in Australia and the resultant rise in personal debt may have led to a tightening of legislation in this country, but the market in Europe is facing concerns of an entirely different nature.
WHILE Germany is regarded as one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world, when it comes to making wine, Western Australia, with its world-class technology, is streets ahead.
INTERNATIONAL mining export opportunities are on the rise as Australia’s expertise gains worldwide credibility, according to Austrade’s mining project manager Joel Hicks.
TWO years after receiving environmental approval for a $690 million private waste management facility in Kwinana, New Zealand waste management firm Global Olivine has yet to get the concept off the drawing board.
THE draft guidelines for agricultural trade reform released by the chairman of the World Trade Organisation is disappointing for Australian farmers and does not go far enough to a
IN the year or so since its entry in to the World Trade Organisation, China has been promoted as ‘the place to invest or export’ by both the Federal and Western Australian governments.
WA companies accounted for almost one in five profit warnings during the second half of calendar 2002, with the State’s corporates going against the national trend, where the number of downgrades Australia-wide dropped after a dismal start to the year.
In part four of his series on collectibles, Gary Kleyn examines some of the tax implications.
HOBBYISTS and serious collectible investors beware. When it comes to tax planning issues it makes no difference what your motives for holding collectibles are.
