SPECIAL REPORT: Former Verve Energy CEO Shirley In't Veld says when it comes to government-owned businesses, politics often wins out over commercial imperatives.
Global Electrotech is now back in charge of its business, following a successful deed of company arrangement under which the contractor has emerged from voluntary administration and receivership.
Residential building approvals have hit a 25-year high in Western Australia, as record-low interest rates drive investors and first home buyers into the housing market.
A prominent group of Perth investors may be drawn into a legal stoush over the financially stricken development of a multi-million dollar Broome apartment resort.
The rating of Australian banks by their business customers has declined sharply over the past five years, with one of the few exceptions being Bank of Queensland.
Embattled property developer Luke Saraceni's battle with the corporate watchdog will move to the Supreme Court after his appeal to the Full Court of the Federal Court was dismissed this morning.
Shedding light on the social impact of Western Australia's remarkable growth will be a priority focus for the new economics research centre at Curtin University.
Bankwest has put its former administrative headquarters in Northbridge on the market, with agent Colliers International expecting the James Street property to stoke keen buyer interest.
The Western Australian economy is at the crossroads of a switch away from its very heavy reliance on resources-sector construction in favour of other parts of the economy – the interest rate-sensit
STEVE Carre has walked both sides of the business street - in big and small firms - and believes there's a touch of arrogance about the former's failure to recognise the value of the latter.
THE slowdown in mining project development last year has affected the Perth office market, with the vacancy rate for CBD offices recording a modest increase to 5.7 per cent in January.
THE use of social media platform Yammer, a growing fly-in, fly-out workforce, and Big Brother-style analysis are tools increasingly in use by human resources departments across Western Australia.
IF there is one subject that unifies people across the property sector it is concern with the lending policies of the banks, which have been criticised for being overly strict and not really unders
Bankwest has joined the ‘free-form' office revolution, with the launch this week of a technology-driven activity-based office as it settles into its new premises at Raine Square.
BANKWEST has dismissed accusations that its purchase by Commonwealth Bank at the height of the GFC had prompted it to act against risky clients or manufacture customer defaults.
Newly restored heritage buildings on St Georges Terrace are set to become a showpiece, but architects and developers worry new rules will halt other projects.
When Bob Williams gazes across the Perth city skyline to the CBD's western-most high rise building he is clearly still enthralled with the structure that marks the high and low point for his construction career.
WHILE the battle over the hearts and minds of superannuation stakeholders is fought relentlessly by industry and retail funds, it is their low-key cousins in the corporate sector that have quietly
WA's largest locally owned banking institution Police & Nurses Credit Society has announced that it will follow the Reserve Bank, cutting the full interest rate on its variable home loan produc
Bankwest has recovered from last year's slump with an interim net profit of $224 million, after reducing its impaired loans expense and cutting business lending by 10 per cent.
Competition in the housing loans market is being bolstered by a revival of wholesale funding, with Australian Finance Group re-launching its securitisation business and Police & Nurses Credit Society launching its first-ever issue of mortgage-backed secur
LARGE organisations eager to contribute to the not-for-profit sector often lack the time to adequately research where funds or workplace volunteers can be best directed.
