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30 days hath September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2013
... landing hit the headlines.A "What Li likes Li gets" (this used to be "what Wen wants...", but I have to adapt to the new Prime Minister). This is because unlike western democracies, China is centrally-planned.A The central government dictates its plans ...

Prime targets investment in accounting firms

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2013
Prime Financial Group's growth plans centre on taking non-controlling equity stakes in accounting firms as well as recruiting them. The wealth management group has targeted growth beyond what it can achieve organically for the next financial year. Prime ...

Rudd promises to expand Super Clearing House

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has said he will extend the Small Business Superannuation Clearing House service to businesses with fewer than 100 employees if he is re-elected. Currently the service is only open to businesses with 19 or fewer employees. ...

Abbott's PPL scheme to hit Australia's charities

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013
... dividends. Bowen said this move would reintroduce double taxation to Australia; something which he said was removed by former Prime Minister Paul Keating in 1987. "That to me is a pretty amazing policy development which reintroduces double taxation in ...

Prime Value AM gets SIV approval

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2013
Boutique Australian equities manager, Prime Value Asset Management, has become the latest fund house to cater for the foreign investors looking to gain residency in Australia via the Significant Investor Visa (SIV) program. Its flagship Prime Value ...

Australia, a middle power between China and US

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2013
... Australia, with an economy that increasingly gravitates towards Asia. As an anecdote, Pollack explained that Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd speaks "extraordinary" Chinese, an ability that "gives him a degree of entrA(C)e into China that most world ...

Who do you trust?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2013

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2013
... release of employment figures for July on Thursday would be key events for the market during the week. Mr Daghlian said Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's announcement on Sunday that a federal election would be held on September 7 was unlikely to influence ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2013
... analyst Peter Esho said the local market on Thursday was preparing for reporting season to get fully underway. It was a prime example of market action being driven by earnings announcements, he said. "Today's probably a great example of that process ...

The good, the good and the dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2013
... them - yes them of the Reinhart and Rogoff infamy. There's sun shining ever so brightly in the Land of the Rising Sun with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his government and his 'Abenomics' getting a thumbs up from Japanese voters. His ruling coalition ...