Macquarie Group remains on track for a record full-year profit of more than $2 billion, though it says volatile market conditions make forecasting difficult.
Kalgoorlie-based Goldfields Money has named former broker Simon Lyons as its new chief executive, concluding a lengthy board renewal process, which began three years ago when the company listed on the ASX.
The recently renamed Avenira is finally realising its potential to become a supplier of phosphate, ticking off a decision to mine at its project in West Africa.
Only four out of Western Australia's top 20 companies currently meet a gender target set by the Australian Institute of Company Directors, which wants women to fill 30 per cent of board positions on S&P/ASX 200 companies within three years.
Independent schools across the state are benefiting from the experience some of Perth's most prominent business leaders have brought to their boards, providing greater diversity and structure to the decision-making process.
The weak iron ore price has cast a shadow over the state government's asset sales agenda and raised concerns the commodity's slump will affect the sale price for the Kwinana Bulk Terminal and the Utah Point port.
Perth-based developer Twin Ocean Group has launched two major projects in Brisbane with a combined end-value of $300 million, with the developments largely funded by a network of Western Australian high net-worth investors.
Property transactions in the agribusiness sector are heating up, with considerable activity in the first six months of 2014, according to Colliers International.
After 20 years in the stockbroking business, Simon Lyons stepped away from equities to enter the fixed income sector as a director of specialist group FIIG, offering an alternative for investors and an option to bank finance for business.
Prominent Perth company director Tracey Horton is among a group of business leaders appointed to a new federal Treasury advisory council designed to replicate the discipline provided by a private sector governance board.
Perth-based stockbroking firm Hartleys has largely maintained its profitability in challenging conditions - a feat that few, if any, of its competitors managed to achieve in the 2013 financial year
NEGOTIATING the often-rocky terrain of the environmental approvals process can be a daunting task for emerging miners, particularly those in the uranium space.
Once seen as an attractive capital source for Australian companies, regulatory hurdles in Canada combined with depressed global markets have dampened enthusiasm for dual listings.
PERTH'S property market has had a busy start to the year, with offshore investors and local syndicators negotiating five purchases worth about $230 million.
Four Perth property sales worth $210 million have been announced in the past fortnight, including Herdsman's largest office building, an iconic city shopping arcade and two industrial properties.
AUSTRALIA'S two major ammonium nitrate producers are punting $1.3 billion that the mining boom has enough legs to justify their investment in new production capacity.
IT might not be the busiest of times in Western Australia's corporate advisory scene, but that has not stopped positive moves by several firms – albeit without much fanfare – that have included the
WITH some experienced campaigners suggesting the current mergers and acquisitions market is the worst they have ever seen, there is plenty of finger pointing to overly exuberant deals of the past f
Macquarie Group has appointed Perth deal-maker and company director Mark Barnaba as chairman of its Western Australian operations, bolstering its status as one of the top investment banks in WA.
Explorer Catalpa Resources plans to raise $20 million with part of the funds to be directed towards a restructure of an existing debt facility with Macquarie Bank.
Macquarie Group has posted a 52 per cent fall in annual profit - its first decline in 17 years - as chief executive Nicholas Moore takes a hefty 99 per cent pay cut.
South Perth-based Australian Renewable Fuels Ltd will issue 25.8 million, 5 year options at a strike price of 19 cents to Macquarie Bank Ltd in return for its advice in relation to business development and financing and operational strategies.
Macquarie Bank is in final-stage lease negotiations with Bishops See developers Hawaiian and Multiplex to take up two floors of the project's nine-storey office tower.
The rules of engagement between Macquarie Bank and Alinta have been set out, with a company announcement saying the bank had agreed to the utility's conditions for co-operation during the proposed management buyout process.
