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How to diversify your dividends

The returns from Telstra shares have become increasingly barren.

The big banks and Telstra provide the bulk of the dividends from the sharemarket but they have also provided the lion's share of losses. So how can income-hungry investors diversify their dividends?

11 mins ago

Analysts say Blackmores has obvious corporate appeal to Chinese private equity buyers but the 25 per cent stake owned by ...

Blackmores last one standing in China frenzy

JP Morgan expects Blackmores shares to head to $150 by year's end. It is now the last big independent Australian vitamins firm.

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Cyan's Dean Fergie says it's a relief to be out of Blue Sky.

'Painful': How to get out of Blue Sky alive

Dean Fergie's overwhelming feeling after escaping from Blue Sky Alternative Investments is one of relief. "Momentum is a very strong force and you ignore it at your peril."

The rise of the $10m a year lawyer

Top lawyers are now able to command the kind of annual salaries associated with leading investment bankers, hedge fund managers and even top athletes.

Chartered Accountants course under scrunity

The federal higher education accreditation body has classed CA ANZ as a financial risk after the professional body made two years of losses.

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Markets Live: ASX drifts after soft start

The S&P;/ASX 200 Index is in the red, despite an earlier recovery; Afterpay drags down the Small Ords.

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1 hr ago

TPG lures across Blackstone managing director: sources

Global private equity giant TPG has poached a dealmaker from rival Blackstone for its Australian team.

Data privacy concerns turn to Google

Google makes more money off its users than Facebook, gathers more of their data and covers parts of their lives that ...

Zuckerberg's polish can't hide blemishes

Mark Zuckerberg in Washington. The consensus is that Facebook will escape immediate, onerous regulation that would have ...

You can't blame genes for your 'taste' for fat

According to the research, funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), a high-fat diet decreased ...

Kohler in car crash interview with Blue Sky CEO

Soren Aandahl of Glaucus Research and Rob Shand of Blue Sky Alternative Investments.

1:52PM

TPG lures across Blackstone managing director: sources

1:34PM

Greenhill Australia poaches Goldman Sachs director

12:15AM

Citi prepares to put $200 million on the line for Afterpay

8:53AM

Andrew Liveris opens wallet to immortality

Kohler in car crash interview with Blue Sky CEO

Star placement Cantonese for dead loss

Arrium is among the industry group clubbing together to buy power.

Lazard, UBS, KPMG to be grilled on Arrium

Representatives from UBS, Lazard and KPMG are among 22 people to be grilled in court over the Arrium collapse.

Caltex is ending its franchising system to take full control of its network.

Caltex CEO takes aim at regulator

Caltex boss Julian Segal has voiced his frustration at the way the Fair Work Ombudsman has behaved in its investigation into wage underpayment amongst its franchisees.

Harbour Energy appoints David Powell as CFO

Santos suitor Harbour Energy hires a former BHP petroleum chief as CFO as it pushes its $13.5 billion tilt for Australia's No. 2 oil and gas producer.

Fraud cops circle trophy homes in NAB case

Prestige properties and other assets have attracted the attention of police investigating the alleged NAB contractor fraud.

The planned facility would see Australia import gas, despite its position as one of the world\'s leading gas exporters.

'Tremendous' growth seen on PNG gas upgrade

A large upgrade in the size of a Papua New Guinea gas field has given further impetus to plans by Exxon and Oil Search to double LNG export capacity.

OneChronos wants to change the way stock markets work.

Start-up seeks to launch an AI-powered stockmarket

Three entrepreneurs say their company, OneChronos, will fundamentally alter the business of buying and selling stocks established more than two centuries ago.

Oil markets tense on Middle East crisis

Oil markets remained tense on Thursday on concerns over a military escalation in Syria.

Citi prepares to put $200m on the line for Afterpay

Plenty of people kicking the tyres on Afterpay Touch Group in recent weeks, but few with the veracity of Citigroup.

Once-surging crypto stocks face delisting and the end of an era

Long Blockchain and Longfin, two firms whose shares skyrocketed last year after they rebranded as blockchain businesses, are set to be ousted from the Nasdaq stock market.

New push for supermarket banks

By Chanticleer

The decline in trust in the major banks presents an ideal opportunity for the country's two large supermarket chains to expand in financial services, according to the former chief executive of Tesco Bank in Britain.

Sanctions ripple round Rusal's world

By Matthew Stevens

US sanctions against Rusal have opened a trail of complexities for the likes of Rio Tinto and Glencore.

'Investors should get used to volatility'

By Karen Maley

Investors are confronting an unusual situation in markets, but they should brace for more volatility ahead, warns veteran investor Jim McCaughan.

How a red herring spooked markets

By Patrick Commins

A misleading wages number sparked a correction on Wall Street and paved the way for massive volatility in markets but are investors also being misled by overhyped fears of a trade war?

Malcolm Turnbull, pictured here with President Xi Jinping, has refused to deny China is delaying issuing visas to ...

PM on China: 'There is certainly some tension'

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull won't deny that China has delayed issuing visas to ministers, as relations between Canberra and Beijing sour.

Andrew Forrest refused to confirm or deny that FMG had been unable to obtain visas for any Australian politician to ...

China's big snub to Australia

The major Australian annual showcase of trade and business held in China looks certain to be abandoned this year – a casualty of a deep chill in the relationship.

Rail link to be largest infrastructure spend

Malcolm Turnbull has called on the Victorian government to contribute as much as half of the cost of a $10 billion rail link to Melbourne Airport.

Energy bosses told to drop power prices

Josh Frydenberg has told power retailers to lower prices to reflect a 20 per cent fall in the wholesale price.

The simple fact is that the performance of union funds like Australian Super is built out of a government system that ...

Why industry funds are not so super

Broad comparisons of industry and retail super conceals a multitude of under-performing sub-scale union funds.

The raid on Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox London office was done at an opportune moment.

Fox raid further complicates any Sky deal

Rupert Murdoch's enemies were quick to seize their opportunity after it was revealed that the London office of 21st Century Fox had been raided by the European Commission.

A fighter with the Army of Islam rebel group, firing a weapon during clashes with government forces in Housh ...

Trump promises military strike on Syria

US President Donald Trump put Syria and Russia on notice in a Twitter post, promising that missiles fired at Syria "will be coming, nice and new and 'smart!'".

Trump v Putin Syria missile feud erupts

Donald Trump's warning for Russia to "get ready" for US missiles hailing on Syria underlines that his courting of Vladimir Putin may be over.

US's long farewell to the Middle East

Even if the US's missiles are "nice and new and 'smart!'", as Donald Trump tweeted on Wednesday, the country's disengagement from the region will resume.