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Chocolate biscuits and animal spirits

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2014
All is clear again on the Wall Street front. Central bank assurances have silenced the Johnny Littles wailing that the sky is falling. We could only imagine now what would have happened to equity markets and in turn to sentiment and then the economies ...

Lonsec confirms interest in van Eyk's iRate

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2014
... Moore Stephens revealed that it entered into an exclusivity arrangement with a potential buyer of the van Eyk Australian business. Moore Stephens said that the interested party is now conducting due diligence. The administrator will recommend moving ...

Van Eyk starts due diligence with potential buyer

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2014
... administrator Moore Stephens has entered into an exclusivity arrangement with a potential buyer of the van Eyk Australian business which is now conducting due diligence. Moore Stephens will nevertheless recommend moving the research business into liquidation ...

Australian family businesses lag global counterparts

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014
The performance of Australian family businesses over the last 12 months has lagged that of their global counterparts, according to the latest survey by PwC. Just over half (53%) of the local family businesses surveyed reported sales growth over the ...

NAB takes a $1bn hit

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
... financial-close process." NAB also announced a $297 million impairment linked to capitalised software, mostly within its Australian business. The bank said the benefits linked to the software had been substantially below what had been expected. It will ...

Business as usual for PIMCO Australia

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
... specifically, he will have oversight for the European and Asian portfolio management desks. In terms of the Australian business, Adam Bowe manages Australian-oriented portfolios, including liability-matched portfolios and Julian Foxall manages portfolios ...

Abbott's SG claim incorrect, survey finds

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2014
... salaries, bonuses or pay rises. Sunsuper chief executive Scott Hartley said: "It's encouraging to see that most Australian business owners were planning to fund the SG increase themselves, rather than from employees' pay, it shows that they care about ...

QSuper adds SMSF-style direct investment option

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2014
... potentially save members thousands and boost their income in retirement," QSuper chief executive and 2013 Telstra Australian Business Woman of the Year, Rosemary Vilgan said. "We're offering them [members] more control over managing their retirement ...

NAB quarterly profit up 7%

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2014
... "While revenue growth remains challenging, Australian home lending continues to achieve market share gains and Australian business loan growth improved in what is traditionally a stronger quarter." Thorburn said that NAB's operations in the United Kingdom ...

China's communist and it works

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2014
... sure this coming Friday. Meanwhile, China's in trouble again. No, it's not that Virginia. It's not because of Australian business mogul and Member of Parliament Clive Palmer's tirade about our biggest trading partner on national television where he let ...