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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Mar 2010
Phil Ruthven
FAICD says our states and territories are travelling at different speeds, with good and bad management and an uneven distribution of luck.
A nation of contrasting progress
Australia’s eight states and territories have similar shares of the nation’s population and economy, bu...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Feb 2010
The shifting economic landscape will come under Niall Ferguson’s microscope at the AICD annual conference in May.
The shifting economic landscape
Weaker commodity markets, international friction over trade, possible real interest rate rises and volatility in exchange rates will be the big issu...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Dec 2009
Phil Ruthven
FAICD explains why Australia gets quite a number of gold stars on the global stage and not many demerit points.
Australia in global perspective
Australia, like the Curate’s Egg, is good in parts. In fact, it is outstandingly good by many measures and remiss in few others.
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Dec 2009
Expectations of directors in the ‘Teens’ will be high.
Michael Robinson
discusses the skills and attributes they will need to step up to the mark.
Making it through the teens
What will the role of a director require as this century enters its teenage years? There is no reason...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Nov 2009
Giles Parkinson
provides some tips on how directors of SMEs can improve their organisations’ attractiveness as buyers start trickling back into the market.
Becoming sale ready
Becoming sale ready
Identify who your likely buyers are
Anticipate what they will be looking for
Ensure rel...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Oct 2009
Under the microscope
After a period of extreme economic uncertainty, rising insolvency rates and fears of mounting class actions, insurers are scrutinising the risks they cover more closely, including those of directors.
Mike Pryce, regional manager (Australasia) for financial lines at AIG, confirm...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Oct 2009
Giles Parkinson
discovers that the amber light is still flashing on merger and acquisition activity as we move out of the global financial crisis.
At the amber lights
The post-GFC M&A landscape
M&A activity is at its lowest since 2004
Funding is still dif...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Sep 2009
How have Australia’s spending and consumption patterns changed?
Phil Ruthven
FAICD has the answers as he reviews how the final markets have shifted over time.
Markets in perspective
Australia’s final market for businesses, as distinct from intermediate mar...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Sep 2009
Robert Pick
and
Tom Story
examine some of the key issues directors should consider when looking at a possible equity raising.
Tapping the markets
The decision to raise equity requires directors to make decisions about more than the price at which shares...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Sep 2009
Michael O’Sullivan spearheads the drive by NFP super funds to engage with the companies in which they invest. He talks to
Nichola Clark
about the challenges and corporate governance standards of Australian directors.
Keeping shareholder activism alive
If you go to the Members’ Pa...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Aug 2009
Scott Hawker
reviews the market for funding and raising capital and provides some top tips for directors of SMEs on how to tackle it.
The SME funding landscape
The top end of the corporate market has been hyperactive in the past nine months, raising new capital to address balance ...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Aug 2009
These days, shareholders need a reason why they should hold on to your company’s shares.
Anthony Tregoning
provides some tips on how to communicate with nervous investors.
Getting the message across
Over the past 18 months, there has been a fundamental change in invest...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Jul 2009
Australian directors are navigating through unchartered waters. AICD chairman
John Story
FAICD discussed some of them at the Company Directors Conference 2009 in Cairns in June. Here’s an edited extract of what had to say.
Navigating unchartered waters
Those of you who were with ...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Jun 2009
A look at how Queensland is faring in the wake of the global financial crisis.
Queensland Update
Once among the fastest growing states in Australia, Queensland, like other states, has been doing it tough since the global financial crisis started.
Last month, international credit-rating agen...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 May 2009
Phil Ruthven
explains why tackling the dilemma of housing shortages and overpricing will require a lot of finesse from governments.
The housing dilemma
Australia has a number of challenges in the housing arena. We are short of housing, especially in the rental market where vacancies in m...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Apr 2009
Do directors tread a fine line by boosting their presence in their organisations in tougher times?
Company Director
asked five directors for their views.
Meddling or mentoring?
The questions
What presence should directors have in their organisations in tough times? Should they in...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Apr 2009
Is regulation the answer to the executive pay dilemmas brought to the fore by the global financial crisis?
Domini Stuart
cuts through the issues in search of answers.
Cutting through the issues
On one hand we have plummeting share prices, cutbacks and redundancies. On the other, ...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Mar 2009
Matt Hern
discusses the hidden profit risk in tough times: employee fear and uncertainty.
Overcoming fear and uncertainty
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself, nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyses needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.” So said...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Mar 2009
Veteran journalist
Alan Kohler
told directors attending a sellout AICD
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luncheon in Brisbane in February to hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. Here is an edited version of what he had to say.
Be prepared
I am not here to tell you good news. I am not much ...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Dec 2008
Phil Ruthven
explains why Asia is a great region in which to live, work, trade and thrive.
The world in perspective
The world is a big place and it is getting bigger in terms of human inhabitants and economic output. The world population in 2009 is expected to top...