Tim Treadgold

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.

No ships. No workers. No class.

“Kevin, it’s Rod here, do you need any advice on your industrial relations policy.”“Yes, please, Sir Rod. All advice welcome.”

Confidence is the fuel of stock market booms. Run dry and the consequences are dire, as we have seen when earlier booms stalled.

Secession bobs up as a topic every time Western Australia goes into boom mode, and now is no different – though there is an emerging (and amusing) variation on the secession theme

If business in Western Australia thought it was impossible for government services to get worse than they already are, then just wait until the lethargy triggered by the Corruptio

Bubbles never last long, as every child knows. No sooner have you blown one than it pops.

Unemployment at 2.7 per cent of the workforce is reason to celebrate; for most of us.

Reinventing yourself, repeatedly, is not an easy trick.

It has been a long time since anyone thought seriously about investing in WA’s Wheatbelt region for the potential of a substantial future capital gain.

No boom lasts forever, but over the past week Briefcase has seen evidence that this boom really is something completely different and might, just might, live up to the expectation

It’s not Brian Burke’s Panama hat that is causing so much trouble in Western Australia these days. It’s something far simpler – it’s the letter ‘b’ itself.

This week, as a treat for its reader, Briefcase wanted to declare this page a Burke-free zone.

It appears no-one has outwardly canvassed the possibilities raised by a simple, three-word question – was anyone trading?

Politics and investment advice are two subjects largely foreign to Briefcase.

Australians are getting used to the idea of a two-speed economy, with resource-rich Western Australia and Queensland rocketing away from the southern rust-belt states.

Regrets abound in financial markets, especially when share prices fall sharply. But what about shares that rise sharply; can anyone have regrets about that?

Conflicts of interest have been in the news lately, but mainly at the top end of town, and mainly because of internal boardroom squabbles.

If you can buy a big bottle of multi-vitamins for $20 why do some people still pay $30?There is a one-word answer: ignorance.

Perth’s overdue residential property price correction, which promises to prune 20 per cent off the value of most homes, also promises to be memorable for two other reasons – it is

Has Wesfarmers become just another tired, diversified industrial, destined for the knacker’s yard, or is it one of the best investments on the stock market, destined to disappear

If there really is a boom in Western Australia, someone forgot to tell the top Perth-based industrial companies.

It's quiz time and today’s questions is: How much financial detail should be available to shareholders in a company?