Elizabeth Knight

Elizabeth Knight

Elizabeth Knight comments on companies, markets and the economy.

Banks pay the price for risky corporate loans

Elizabeth Knight We will soon see just how much a handful of risky, ill judged and very large loans have damaged the big four.

The public are being misled in the company tax debate

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Elizabeth Knight Australians are being snowed about tax — in particular company tax.

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Clive Palmer pillaged his personal piggy bank

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Elizabeth Knight A mammoth heist is laid out in the administrator's account of how Queensland Nickel failed.

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Target's $21 million profit fudge smacks of desperation

Target managing director Stuart Machin says green shoots are emerging but the retailer has much more to do.

Elizabeth Knight Around October, a band of about 10 ''team members'' inside department store Target really started to panic.

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Arrium - the company that Malcolm Turnbull couldn't save

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Elizabeth Knight The appointment of a voluntary administrator to Arrium adds to the inevitability that the steelworks operation (as we know it) will ultimately disappear.

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Headmaster Malcolm Turnbull takes cane to banks leaving Westpac management ginger

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Elizabeth Knight The timing of Malcolm Turnbull's banking industry speech couldn't have been more embarrassing for Westpac.

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Aussie cricket team slaughters Nine Network

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Elizabeth Knight A shortened cricket game and rain are not the sort of thing you normally need to tell the #ASX about.

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Panama papers: Banks in the spotlight as ATO gets fresh list of Mossack Fonseca's tax skirters

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Elizabeth Knight The average tax paying Australian must be feeling futility fatigue as yet another round of explosive revelations the that super rich have skirted many millions in tax.

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Major concerns over Australian corporate corruption, but convictions few

Elizabeth Knight There are way too many smoking guns in the hands of Australian companies that are allegedly engaged in foreign corruption and bribery.

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Appetite for risk: Why restaurateur Bill Granger took on London

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Elizabeth Knight When restaurateur entrepreneur Bill Granger plunged into London market with his cosy but successful Australian business Bills, he put both his finances and reputation on the line.

Air New Zealand loses passion for Virgin

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Elizabeth Knight The fact that Air New Zealand boss Christopher Luxon has been unhappy with the progress of Virgin's profit turnaround is a bit of an open secret.

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Telstra the disrupted dinosaur

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Elizabeth Knight Move to sell Foxtel looms as another whitepages moment.

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Banks feel more pain from end of mining boom

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Elizabeth Knight The deteriorating fortunes of the mining industry continue to spread to the banking industry as major lenders are hit by troubled loans to that sector.

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Elmer Funke Kupper guilty of poor judgment

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Elizabeth Knight Playing in the minefield of developing countries which have entirely different standards of corporate behaviour is risky.

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ASX chief Elmer Funke Kupper's resignation highlights miscalculation of gravity

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Elizabeth Knight Allegations this serious required a different response from those around Elmer Funke Kupper.

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Malcolm Turnbull versus big business – cease fire

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Elizabeth Knight The rollercoaster relationship between  Malcolm Turnbull and big business took a turn for the better on Monday.

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Myer's overhaul gains traction

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Elizabeth Knight Overhaul was badly needed but there is some way to go.

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Risk Room: How Jessica Watson conquered the world at 16

Jessica Watson never thought she was rolling the dice with her life.

Elizabeth Knight Jessica Watson – the girl who at 16 sailed solo around the world – doesn't view her extraordinary voyage as the biggest risk she has taken.

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Effects test: Malcolm Turnbull comes to blows with big business over competition reform

The Prime Minister told Parliament  he was not a theorist in the area of competition.

Elizabeth Knight The Goliaths of big business have sustained a damaging loss against the small business Davids thanks to the Turnbull government's decision to beef up competition laws.

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ASX boss Elmer Funke Kupper needs to set the record straight

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Elizabeth Knight Explosive allegations of a $200,000 payment to the family of the Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen by Tabcorp in 2010 during the reign of the now head of ASX, Elmer Funke Kupper, need to be cleared up...