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ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014
... Australian Football League chief executive Andrew Demetriou, 42 Below founder Geoff Ross and founder and host of "The Small Business Big Marketing Show" Tim Reid have been confirmed as speakers. The AFA 2014 National Adviser Conference is focused on ...

Innovation to drive 2014 AFA Conference

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
... Australian Football League chief executive Andrew Demetriou, 42 Below founder Geoff Ross and founder and host of "The Small Business Big Marketing Show" Tim Reid have been confirmed as speakers. They will be joined by The Body-Brain Performance Institute ...

Northstar joins Chan & Naylor joint venture partnership

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2014
Sydney-based accounting firm Northstar has become the latest to joint venture partner of national accounting and advice firm Chan & Naylor. The deal will see Chan & Naylor take an equity share in the company in return for driving mutual growth. Northstar ...

Government tables FoFA bill in House of Reps

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
... legislation before the end of the year. Unsurprisingly, Greens spokesperson for consumer affairs, competition policy and small business Senator Peter Whish-Wilson said that the FoFA legislation "is aimed at locking into law the dodgy deal that they [the ...

Countplus misses profit guidance

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
... statement said. According to the announcement, the company's results were "impacted by the business conditions for the small business sector across the country and the sale of a major poor performing business and the restructuring of another," it said. ...

China's winning

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
... Forbes magazine, "On Friday night, the PBOC announced some selective easing measures designed to encourage loans to small business and the agriculture sector. The move is expected to help lower funding costs for small firms and farmers even though real ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
... on Monetary Policy and the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases June housing finance figures. The National Small Business Summit is on in Melbourne. In equities news, News Corp and REA Group post full year results. In Australia, the market on Thursday ...

ASIC to renew focus on misleading advertising

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has listed advertising of financial products as one of the current and future areas of focus in its latest enforcement report. The regulator has achieved 256 enforcement outcomes in the six ...

PROFILE: Sunsuper chief executive Scott Hartley

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
... the border, first in the oil industry, and then in the retail sector of the superannuation industry. The son of a small business owner and a schoolteacher, Hartley went to Brisbane Boys' College before studying a bachelor of business at Queensland University ...

Boost from Chinese stimulus to be short-lived

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2014
Goldman Sachs' investment management division has lowered its suggested allocation to emerging markets as the Chinese economy struggles to transition from a focus on exports to a focus on domestic consumption. Dr Jiming Ha, vice chairman and chief investment ...