Auditors
Promise to improve after ASIC warning
Gareth Hutchens Audit firms agree to lift their game after ASIC issues a 'final warning' to improve quality.
Stocks
Market moves into correction
Max Mason and Gareth Hutchens The local market is now nearly 10 per cent below its recent peak.
Market moves into correction
Max Mason Gareth Hutchens Australian shares are nearly 10 per cent below their recent peak, a drop that is widely considered a correction, after a string of poor data and a sharply weaker currency has forced investors to exit...
Capital raising
ASX taps investors for $553m
Gareth Hutchens The ASX has tapped investors for $553 million in fresh funds to help it compete with foreign clearing houses.
Wealth
Should the rich pay more tax? The experts' view
Gareth Hutchens Should wealthy Australians pay more tax, or at least pay their 'fair share' of tax? How much tax should each person pay?
Banking
Customers take leap into mobile
Gareth Hutchens The number of bank customers who use mobile phone and iPads is growing at breakneck pace, with billions of dollars in transactions now taking place every month.
Banking
Customers take leap into mobile banking
Gareth Hutchens The number of bank customers who use mobile devices is growing at breakneck pace.
Living standards will fall if we don't tax rich more: Cousins
Gareth Hutchens A former Howard government adviser has warned Australia will need to increase taxes on its wealthiest families if it does not want standards of living to drop.
Justice
Insider trading penalty raised to jail time
Gareth Hutchens A former tax consultant from a 'big four' accounting firm has been sentenced to nearly two years' jail.
Markets
'Tipping point' triggers downhill racers
Gareth Hutchens Nearly 4 per cent of the value of the sharemarket was wiped away this week as investors absorbed talk of the US Federal Reserve's plan to tighten monetary policy.
Courts
Insider trader sentenced to two years jail
Gareth Hutchens A former tax consultant from a “big four” accounting firm has been sentenced to nearly two years’ jail for insider trading.
Courts
Tinkler resolves claim by BKK Partners
Gareth Hutchens The dust has settled on the legal dispute between embattled coal miner Nathan Tinkler and corporate adviser BKK Partners.
Markets
Cochlear hit after profit downgrade
Gareth Hutchens High-tech hearing implant manufacturer Cochlear had its share price savaged on Monday.
Trading
High-speed trading's heavy cost
Gareth Hutchens High-speed traders are costing long-term investors and super funds as much as $1.9 billion a year.
Fund chief warns of super tinkering
Gareth Hutchens The federal opposition's plan to scrap a tax rebate on super contributions of low-income earners is a ''retrograde'' policy that will hurt 3 million Australians, the head of the country's biggest...
Superannuation
Super chief criticises opposition's plans for change
Gareth Hutchens The federal opposition's plan to scrap a tax rebate on the super contributions of low-income earners is a 'retrograde' policy, says Ian Silk.
No brakes on high-speed trades: ASIC
Gareth Hutchens Corporate regulator will not stop high-speed traders by forcing brokers to hold small trades.
Twitter for trading a 'bad idea'
Gareth Hutchens ASX deputy chief disagrees with Twitter being considered an appropriate mechanism for disclosure.
ASIC
No limits on high-speed trades
Gareth Hutchens The corporate regulator will not force brokers to hold small-sized trades for a minimum time.
Markets
Stocks edge up as analysts advise trading banks for miners
Gareth Hutchens The market eked out a small gain as investors switched support from the big banks to miners.
