Tim Treadgold

A stronger Australian currency will pose major challenges in the year ahead.

ONE fortune in a lifetime is enough for most people, but not if you are the 'golden Greek', a schooldays nickname for Kerry Harmanis, the man who pocketed $500 million less than a year before the 2008 stock market meltdown.

A STOCK exchange listing is off the agenda, but Perth property developer Nigel Satterley is creating a corporate structure that will ensure his Satterley Group stays in business long after he is gone.

Predicting the future is a mug’s game, or as US sportsman Yogi Berra once said: “the future isn’t what it used to be”.

Private equity might have faded as a force in the stock market, but there’s something bigger happening in the ‘private world’ – the rapid disappearance from public view, and publi

Australia’s bankers tell us that a US-style sub-prime credit crisis could never happen here. Oh yeah?

The government-versus-government blame game, one of the real blots on the Australian political and business landscape, has come to an end. Or has it?

BHP Billiton’s proposed $400 billion merger with Rio Tinto is being hailed as the biggest game in the resources world, but there is a bigger force at work, and it has the potentia

Gina Rinehart and Andrew Forrest, despite their obvious differences, have two characteristics in common – they both enjoy taking BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto to court over railway access and other matters.

Wall-to-wall Labor government in Australia and flat-management theory do not appear to have much in common.

Did you enjoy the boom?

Australia’s skills shortage is, for most people, a nuisance rather than a serious problem.

Business, if opinion polls are a guide, reckons a Rudd win at the November 24 election will be bad for the economy.Rubbish.

There’s a new kid on the business block, and he’s doing very well thanks to a secret management technique called ‘do nothing’.

As we prepare to enter year six of the greatest resources boom Australia has experienced there’s a hunt under way for the next mining and oil investment theme to maintain the mome

A friend bought a pair of shoes last week.

The price of wheat is at an all-time high, the share price of AWB Ltd (once known as the Australian Wheat Board) is at an all-time low. Why is this so?

Inverse yields in the money market are a telltale sign of a future recession and are high on the watch list of US economists.

The world’s sub-prime credit squeeze came from nowhere, a fact that will please one seasoned observer of the way economies work, Don Stammer.

Going soft is not usually an admirable trait in anyone, and certainly not when it comes to the hardheaded world of investing.

The aftermath of a stock market correction is always a marvelous time for pondering some of the deeper investment questions, such as whether a business is better off following the

‘Conspicuous by his absence’ is an old expression normally reserved for someone who fails to turn up at a meeting.

Namibia, Tanzania, Zambia and Malawi are a long way from Perth, but they are the names of African countries that should be burning deeply into the conscience of Western Australia’

Knowing a lot about the companies in which you invest is a good thing.

Selling assets has been a foreign concept during the boom. To do so was to risk missing the next upward leg in what has been a remarkable five years.

Wrong place, wrong time.

Rick Allert and Dick Carter ought to swap notes, because if they did, Mr Allert might learn something about organising a competitive takeover bid, and Mr Carter might learn someth

Spin just ain’t what it used to be. Perhaps it’s the boom. Perhaps it’s incompetence. Perhaps it’s the internet.

Software is the stuff that makes computers run smoothly. How ironic, then, that ‘soft options’ cause business, and wider society, to run roughly.

Anyone watching the Australian stock market for the past few weeks could not avoid the feeling that it’s been bouncing across a ceiling, unable to get much higher, and looking ext

Expect to read a lot more in the coming weeks about the search for value in an economy performing at its peak.

PT Barnum was right. There really is a sucker born every minute.