Suresh Rajan

In the Government’s response to the second stage of the Ralph Committee Review of Business Taxation it has signalled that it intends to introduce measures to limit the avoidance of income tax that occurs through alienation of personal services income thro

There must be something in the job descriptions of Australian Federal Treasurers that insists on a level of smugness after a certain time in office.

For what seems to be an eternity we have been exhorted by financial planners and advisers to concentrate on superannuation and savings for our future.

CORPORATE superannuation trustees are increasingly looking to masterfunds, says AM Corporation national manager of corporate superannuation Grant Wilson.

PHIL Fortuna is the managing director of the quantitative group for Scudder Kemper Investments, one of the largest fund managers in the world.

National Australia Bank has updated its global business team.

DISCUSSIONS on the financial services industry are filled with industry-specific jargon. In an effort to demystify the industry, we shall be bringing you a series of articles to explain some of the terminology.

THE talking point at the moment in financial circles seems to be whether the Reserve Bank of Australia will increase interest rates at its next board meeting scheduled for early November.

Austin Donnelly wrote his first finance book in 1953. He has now written his forty-ninth book on the subject.

WA-BASED brokerage houses Hartley Poynton, Macquarie Porter Western and Paterson Ord Minnet have been selected as joint lead managers for the sale of the majority of equity in AlintaGas by public float.

THIS ‘free lunch’ is expensive. This is the time of year when we are bombarded by the advertising that tells us that we can buy the consumer durable goods with “no Interest and no repayments until the new millennium”.

As we enter into the quarter of the year when retail spending becomes the dominant driver of economic growth, with Christmas spending and holiday plans predominant, it is appropriate to look at the past three months and review our position here in the Aus

The government response to John Ralph’s Review of Business Taxation has been encouraging to say the least.

EACH time you see an adviser, the first thing they mention are the risk levels attached to investments and your ‘risk profile’.

The world is preoccupied with Telstra 2 – or so it would seem.

THE Australian Stock Exchange has released an brochure outlining the restructure of the All Ordinaries Index.

SUCCESSFUL retirement is built on two foundations – a financial plan and a lifestyle plan, says RetireInvest CEO Mark Spiers.

How often do we hear investment advisors and financial planners exhort us to invest some of our money overseas?

With the issues facing the Indonesian government at the present time, it is interesting to look at our trading position with them.

Milton Friedman was of the view that “the business of business is business”. Others before and after him have questioned whether there is a need for business to be involved in social and moral issues.

A ROSE by any other name.The great bard, William Shakespeare had no idea when he wrote this line that a name was, in some instances, the most important aspect of a business.

With the myriad of changes in superannuation circles since the first of the taxing legislation was introduced in 1983, a number of people have questioned the efficacy of superannuation as an investment vehicle.

Every financial commentator in the country has said for some time that the rise in the value of Internet stocks that have been driving the American market ever upward has been unreasonable and would at some stage correct itself.

There seems to be a groundswell of discussion about the prices that we, the consumers, are paying at the bowser for our petrol.

Some years ago, in a previous incarnation, I was employed as an assessor in the Australian Taxation Office.

For a long time Malaysia was one of those nations considered to be a land of plenty and, being blessed with substantial resources, was always going to be successful.

THE code of conduct covering electronic funds transfer should expand to cover all forms of electronic banking, an Australian Securities and Investments Com-mission-formed working group has found.

The latest research from BIS Shrapnel certainly has the town talking as they predict a fairly torrid time for Australia.

In recent weeks we have seen the resource sector of the Australian sharemarket perform outstandingly well.

The recent yelling from the rooftops about changes to capital gains tax has captured the minds, and particularly the hearts, of traders and small investors alike as we try to understand the proposed changes.

WHILE WA has the strongest housing sector in the country, pressure on the mining sector has started to bite in WA, according to the Challenge Bank’s June quarter Market Insights.

The Westpac Melbourne Institute Index of Consumer Sentiment measures the level of confidence householders feel in the state of the economy and their willingness to undertake purchases over a defined period.