'IPO euphoria is extreme'
Floats and backdoor listings are booming in a flat sharemarket, with 74 IPOs this year delivering an average share-price gain of 22 per cent relative to their issue price.
Float stocks the fundies like
Leading small-cap fund managers have participated in only a handful of IPOs in 2015 and received far less stock than sought. Several told the Smart Investor Weekend that IPO prices had risen too far.
Backbone of economy showing its strength
It is a constant refrain, that small business is the backbone of the economy: and the latest statistics bear it out.
Innovation is the key to new markets
Australian small businesses are in two minds when it comes to considering themselves innovative, according to the recently released The Economy of Shopping Small report released by American Express.
Fintech proves a boon for small business
The fintech revolution – the marriage of finance and technology – has been happily picked up by many of the nation's small businesses, which notice new lenders coming through to service a sector they believe the banks aren't interested in servicing.
Personal touch is close at hand
In November 2013, financial services firm American Express founded the Shop Small movement, a nationwide movement that seeks to focus Austra...
Capital is the key for small business
The small business environment is changing all the time but what does not change is the basic feeling of being on your own and immersed in t...
Start-up optimism fatigue ahead as talking never ends
Until Malcolm Turnbull puts some shape to the innovation policy agenda, with a timetable the relentless start-up optimism risks becoming cou...
Land of the battle-hardened start-up
There is still a long way to go before Australia is considered in Israel or London's league when it comes to producing the world's next grea...
Call to link super contributions to pay cycle
Employers should have to pay their workers' superannuation fortnightly or monthly instead of only quarterly to stop workers being bilked of ...
