Insights

Dividends are suddenly crucial to investors and companies alike - but just now they are not cheap by historical standards.

Taking cash out of an SMSF, keeping the Commonwealth Seniors Health Card, paying CGT after a demolition and more.

Investing for your children, gifting BHP, currencies and more.

The lobby representing power network companies wants these companies to have the power to mandate custom designed tariffs for specific customers. It's dressed up as being about protecting fairness but it creates a real risk of being used to protect them against competition from new technology.

Milk is cheaper than spring water in China and entertainment industry doubles in size.

The ECB's policies have squeezed money market funds and bank deposits. But there's an out-of-the-box solution for investors with large cash holdings.

Consumers have learnt the hard way that it's not enough to meet peak demand through merely supply-side measures. As pollies gather to discuss demand response, the question looms: will gentailers kill it again?

The government has made a glaring omission in the latest research on the future of Australian industry.

If property investment continues to surge, it will be only a matter of time before APRA takes action.

With 150 years of family business history to draw on, EY partner Richard Boyce knows better than most what it takes to succeed.

Today's commitment of $200m will defuse international disbelief and assist the world's poorest countries - indeed, Australia has a lot to gain by improving the resilience and stability of our region.

The strategic benefits from the acquisition of the QCLNG pipeline will see APA Group cement its dominant position in the east coast gas transmission sector.

Cost pressures are forcing many family businesses to professionalise their operations, but getting it wrong can be disastrous.

BlackBerry and Microsoft are two tech companies battered by changing markets, their similarities and differences give us some pointers of the trends in the industry.

Increased renewables generation - up to 10% of peak demand - is changing net load shapes in the sunshine state, prompting the system operator to enhance flexible, dispatchable capacity.

As Beijing pulls out all stops to boost lending to fund-starved SMEs, CBA's unconventional approach has put it in a sweet spot.