TPG bid for Fairfax: what usually happens when private equity meets media?
May 09, 2017 15:48 pm UTC| Insights & Views Investing
TPG Capital, the US private equity firm leading a consortium bidding for some of the assets of troubled Australian media company Fairfax, has a reasonable track record in media acquisitions. Judging by its past...
Investing in rural health brings ten-fold returns to local economies (and improves health)
Apr 26, 2017 07:59 am UTC| Insights & Views Investing
When we talk about rural health, its easy to focus on health inequalities between the roughly 10% of Australians who live in rural and remote areas and those who live in our cities. Statistics show the further...
Super funds targeted in Shorten's housing affordability package
Apr 22, 2017 01:55 am UTC| Insights & Views Investing
Labor will promise to ban direct borrowing by self-managed superannuation funds, as part of a housing affordability policy released on Friday to pre-empt the governments package in next months budget. This limited...
Calculating where America should invest in its transportation and communications networks
Apr 20, 2017 03:13 am UTC| Insights & Views Investing
The American economy is underpinned by networks. Road networks carry traffic and freight; the internet and telecommunications networks carry our voices and digital information; the electricity grid is a network carrying...
Here's how superannuation is already financing homes
Apr 14, 2017 03:44 am UTC| Insights & Views Investing Real Estate
The federal government is split on whether first home buyers in Australia should be allowed to use part of their superannuation for home deposits. But what the more strident critics miss is that Australias superannuation...
Expert conversation: Can we do without Chinese capital?
Apr 14, 2017 02:36 am UTC| Insights & Views Investing Economy
This article is from the International Economics Campaigning series of The Conversations partnership with Frances Research Centre in International Economics (CEPII), a CEPII-La Tribune-The Conversation-Xerfi-Canal...
Why you may be paying more income tax than you should
Apr 14, 2017 01:54 am UTC| Insights & Views Life Investing
Springtime brings many things, from proverbial showers to birds chirping and warmer weather. It also signals tax season is upon us once more. Every year 140 million U.S. taxpayers spend countless hours gathering...
Electricity from farm waste: how biogas could help Malawians with no power
What the Supreme Court is doing right in considering Trump’s immunity case
US election: why it’s not the protesters’ votes that the Democrats should worry about
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects