Class action threat more pain for Newcrest shareholders

ADELE FERGUSON As Newcrest Mining prepares to close its financial accounts in the next few days, taking into account the impact of a fall in the gold price on its cash flow and revenue assumptions, it will also need to consider a looming class action that could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

David Gonski's appointment as chairman bolsters ANZ's Asia strategy

ELIZABETH KNIGHT ANZ chief Mike Smith is not shy when it comes to voicing his frustration about non-believers of the bank's Asian strategy, or even those that raise legitimate questions around returns or some parts of the execution.

Productivity Report paints a gloomy picture of car industry's future

MALCOLM MAIDEN Anybody who thinks that throwing more taxpayer money at Australia's vehicle industry will guarantee its survival - even centred on one company, Toyota - should read the Productivity Commission's preliminary report.

Call to 'get tough' on banks' wealth management operations

MICHAEL WEST Some superannuation funds have been giving favouritism to the banks that own them.

How hot-desking offices can wreck productivity

ROSS GITTINS Reduced office space may have yielded savings, but at what cost to workers' productivity?

Where Abbott fails: pain must be seen to be shared

MICHAEL PASCOE The government is giving the impression that it is committed to maintaining the privileges of the privileged, while whittling away at the breaks afforded the not-so-privileged.

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The year super went from ridiculous to sublime

MAX NEWNHAM Actual improvements including removal of tax for low-income earners balanced by some misteps.

Directors

Directors buy up struggling stocks

CHRISTOPHER WEBB A clutch of stocks that have been falling to earth and hitting 52-week lows attract some support.

Issues facing our nation require true vision and leadership

HAROLD MITCHELL As Keating said in his book, 'Leaders need two characteristics: imagination and courage.'

Looking for ways to post a profit in a dead-letter world

ERIC JOHNSTON While telcos, airlines and power stations are relatively easy business for governments to sell, postal services have long stayed in the too-hard basket.

CBD

CBD: Packer says bank looks after itself

Picking the highlights from the rich tapestry of events that passed before CBD this year was never going to be easy, but the big end of town is always a good place to start, especially when the Goliaths come head-to-head.

Insider

Old favourites appear once more in ASX hall of shame

ASX commanders fire their warning shots at the sharemarket's corporate cling-ons.