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Bank planners promote gearing strategies

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2007
... planners have been recommending the use of debt to achieve superannuation contribution goals. Rogers said a lot of small business owners had been thinking about selling assets and putting the proceeds into super, but because those assets were tied up ...

Economic round-up: Wage wars

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2007
In Western Australia some small businesses have had to close because they cannot compete in the wage wars with mining companies who are offering premium pay packets to workers. There is increasing pressure on the hospitality, retail and manufacturing ...

Beware the private equity trap

... many fields, as it grows funds managers are on the hunt for investments that offer a high rate of return. For many small business owners, this access to easy money is a hard lure to resist and makes private equity companies seem a wise bed partner," ...

Starved infrastructure will bite into growth

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2007
Opposition Leader, Kevin Rudd, played the political magician last night by pulling some surprising economic and political rabbits out of the hat, but there's still no talk of feeding our starved infrastructure any time soon. If anyone was wondering ...

Party like it's 1983

... may have had personal super contributions going back to the 1970s. They are typically employees of large firms or small business owners. "In fact, it was not uncommon for people starting businesses to commence a self employed or personal superannuation ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 NOV 2006
... suggest that most of the steam has been taken out of that market as consumers face higher interest rate regimes. The Small Business Survey undertaken by the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) and St.George Bank showed that business conditions ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2006
... still has the majority of workers in it. In an effort to reduce the complications of administrative procedures for small business the Federal government has announced changes worth about $150 million that will allow small businesses with turnover of ...

Daily economic round-up

ALFRED SINN  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2006
The International Monetary Fund has revised up its growth forecasts for the Australian economy to 3 per cent in 2006 and 3.5 per cent in 2007 and has warned that the commodity price boom is likely to put upward pressure on inflation and therefore interest ...

Asteron ramps up insurance and income protection

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 OCT 2006
... life insurance and income protection offerings to try to remedy a significant shortfall in income protection for small business owners and self-employed workers. The move is in response to research conducted by Rice Walker Actuaries who estimated that ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2006
... cent to $12.5 billion and those of copper rose 79 per cent to $5.5 billion. About 13 per cent of companies are small business exporters whose main destination is New Zealand with a 40 per cent share followed by the UK on 29 per cent, the US on 27 per ...