Last month, the US Securities and Exchange Commission paid out its biggest-ever reward to a whistleblower – US$30 million. It is the sort of treatment that corporate whistleblowers in Australia can only dream about.
As they picked their way through India's dense, overpopulated slums, cricket icon Steve Waugh and his investment banking friend Dean Honan saw great struggle, but also great opportunity.
The Reserve Bank is looking at measures to "stretch out the upswing" in the housing market, governor Glenn Stevens has confirmed.
Chinese giant New Hope announced it would invest up to $500 million in Australian dairy farms just a day after the historic China-Australia free trade agreement.
For its new chief executive, Andrew Vesey, energy utility AGL turned to the US rather than pursue a local or internal appointment.
The footwear brands owner has signalled the company is profitable and cash flow positive.
Japanese investors have snapped up $21.7 billion in Australian assets at the fastest pace in nearly four years as the lure of higher relative interest rates and weakness in global growth heightens demand for local bonds and the currency.
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Several Australian industries stand to benefit from the free trade agreement signed with China. Here’s a quick summary of some of the key winners.
it is not too often that you turn up frank and fearless research about your savings and super.
Traders at the heart of the foreign-exchange market rigging investigations that led to record fines this week didn't hold back in online chats.
Instead of simply being spun out from Procter & Gamble, Duracell will find a new corporate home - with Warren Buffett.
The Australian banking sector could have tens of billions of dollars stuck under the pillows of China's shadow banks.
In the US, there's quiet revolution going on as health insurers come under pressure. Is Australia next?
Some of Australia’s best-known fund managers name stocks that should do well in what’s predicted to be a sluggish 2015.
Even without last week's historic climate change deal between China and the US, oil and coal demand is set to plummet over the next few decades, according to research from Citi.
A promising start on the Australian stock market faded quickly on Tuesday, with the falling iron ore price, poor sentiment over Japan’s economy and continuing worries about the Murray inquiry.
Australia’s newly-signed free trade agreement with China is expected to provide significant benefits to the domestic economy, but for listed companies the impact is likely to be felt over the longer term, say fund managers and analysts.
Several Australian industries stand to benefit from the free trade agreement signed with China. Here’s a quick summary of some of the key winners.
The footwear brands owner has signalled the company is profitable and cash flow positive.
Woolworths might be facing a clean-up bill between $30 million and $60 million for its role in the sale of faulty electrical cable to about 40,000 households and businesses.
National Australia Bank customers have until late January to sign up to a class action over about $40 million in bank fees, which the bank is moving to settle.
The Tax Office denied Macquarie Group a controversial tax deduction related to offshore subsidiaries that resulted in a long-running and costly court battle, while at the same time allowing other taxpayers to claim the deductions, a report finds.
The uranium industry is hoping to make trial shipments to India next year as the nation makes plans to move to 25 per cent nuclear power by 2050.
Rio Tinto has been given approval for a new 70 million tonne a year iron ore mine in the Pilbara.
Allergan, the maker of Botox, has resisted selling itself to another company for most of the year. On Monday, however, it agreed to be acquired by Actavis, another big drugmaker, for $US66 billion.
Japan's economy unexpectedly slipped into recession in the third quarter, setting the stage for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to delay an unpopular sales tax hike and call a snap election just two years after he took office.
Qantas on Monday became the first cab off the rank to capitalise on all that free trade goodwill flowing between China and Australia.
Gina Rinehart, the Australian billionaire who built her fortune on iron ore, is planning a $500 million investment to supply infant formula to a Chinese market forecast to almost double over three years.
New lock-out laws in central Sydney – which require pubs to close earlier – have sparked an increase in new "eat streets" and bars in the suburbs.
The establishment of a flagship UNIQLO store in Sydney's Pitt Street Mall signals the maturing of the local retail scene.
Investing in assets with strong tenant covenants and long leases has seen Charter Hall Group strengthen its financial position.
Plans to redevelop the City Tattersalls Club in Pitt Street into a $200 million hotel and apartment tower have hit a speedbump.
Qantas’s business rewards program allows companies to hand out upgrades to employees.
Decisions need to be made on the banking industry - the savings of millions of Australians are at stake.
Finding ways to fund 20 years of post-work living is going to stretch many of us.
Make 2015 the year your dream of owning your own business comes true.
Did you know you can sell your business without paying a cent to the ATO?
With the holiday season fast approaching, there seems to be a lot of tempting credit card offers out there. But whats the catch? Personal finance editor John Collett and columnist David Potts investigate.
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