Suresh Rajan

EDUCATION can directly impact on your children’s future earning power.

TWO months of the GST has given us time to look back to see what the impact has been.

NATIONAL Australia Bank is the first in Australia to have launched a credit card that actually wants you to read the fine print.

A BANK that offers the convenience of a savings account with a number of attractive features?I think we’d all like to see that. Maybe we have.

CHRIS Freeman is the national director for sales at BT Funds Management and spends a lot of time talking to advisers and financial planners about the position of the company the marketplace.

FOR years, investors planning for retirement have heard the reasons for holding Australian stocks in their portfolio.These include dividend imputation, increasing income and capital growth.

TRADING on the American market on August 25 will be remembered for one thing – the power of information.Emulex is a network equipment manufacturer whose stock was trading on the day at $113.06.

WINE may not appear as glamorous as some Ascot Spring Carnival beauties when fashions of the field are paraded, but it’s true that the product of the vine does run in tune to fashion.

WHAT are three most important decisions that most of us make during our lifetime?Our purchase of a vehicle is usually the first and the purchase of the home usually the biggest.

HERE we go again. It is that time of the year when the West Australian economy falls out of step with the rest of Australia.

SANFORD Limited has announced its revenue for this financial year is expected to be more than $30 million, a nearly threefold increase on last year.

THIS week’s column is devoted to bringing to your attention a new product that is designed to educate children about money.The Pocket Pal system was created and designed by Neil Fairhead. If it delivers nothing other than a simple understanding of s...

THE speech by Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Ian McFarlane in Queensland on August 10 certainly led economists to suggest the bank had already factored in a 0.25 per cent rate rise for the September quarter.Mr MacFarlane made the key point that...

Weekly CommentaryEconomy: Even though it is expected that the US Federal Reserve will not raise interest rates at its 22 August meeting it is now expected the RBA will raise rates at its September 5 meeting. The RBA is concerned about the rapid rise...

THE hysteria dominating the minds of most consumers seems to be related to petrol prices and the role of the OPEC cartel in determining these prices.The cartel is a permanent inter-governmental organisation, created at the Baghdad Conference of 1960...

VAN Eyk research is a company that provides research to financial planners on matters related to managed funds and shares and other related issues.It has for a number of years and, according to their figures, about 60-65 per cent of all financial pl...

ABOUT five or six months ago I wrote a story about a warning issued by the Ministry of Fair Trading regarding web-based business SkyBiz.The warning from the Ministry related to the prospect that the business involved “referral selling” which would p...

CHEQUE Images Online sounds impressive, but what is it?It is BankWest’s new online service. Through this new service, BankWest allows its Online Banking customers the opportunity to view details of cheques that they have written by calling up images...

After an absence of two and a half years, County Investment Management has returned to the retail market.

Ask for discounts on goods such as whitegoods and furniture: You will be surprised how willing stores are to negotiate a price on goods.

THE Reserve Bank of Australia meets on the first Tuesday of every month. In that meeting, a key decision is whether interest rates should be raised, lowered or left alone.

Business News has introduced a new column offering advice for people to improve their savings.Each week we will feature a few tried and proven methods by which it is possible to achieve savings.

ISSUES raised by Chifley Financial Services managing director Fergus Neilson at a FEAL conference have implications for the community.

The GST start date appears to have passed with little more than interested onlookers, such as this correspondent, wandering through the aisles of supermarkets and shopping centres in the vain hope that we might stumble upon some major catastrophe we coul

In all the hysteria surrounding the GST and its attendant introductory issues, we seem to have forgotten that an income tax system still applies.

The years 1997 and 1998 were not kind to Asian markets. Thecurrency crisis of 1997 spilled over into the real economy and a vast number of investment projects were aborted – but has the tide changed?

THE Australian Stock Exchange could be one of nine sharemarket administrators behind a push to create a twenty-four hour trading market valued at around $34 million.

WHENEVER you think of credit management and debt collection the first thought that springs to mind probably relates to a small practice where the operator of the business is camped outside the door waiting for your arrival so as to collect the dollars you

Remember the movie Trading Places?The ASX certainly appears to. In recent months they have made substantial changes to the indices that are usually seen as the benchmarks of trading on the market.

From 1 July 2000, the tax situation of life companies is changing.

Federal legislation to be introduced as early as July this year will affect all benefit and pension payments, except the Family Payment, from 1 July 2001.

If you were looking for an industry that had the potential to outperform others in the immediate to near future, one industry to consider would undoubtedly be health and biotechnology.