Hong Kong Director Briefing: Positioning yourself in this decade – The role of the NED in Asia Directors are becoming highly sought after, especially those with experience in the dynamic and emerging markets in South East Asia. What are the skills, competencies and experiences that Boards will look for...

Corporate Misgovernance ? Cape out of range The Sydney Morning Herald  Business Day reports this morning has Cape Range ( devised a fool-proof strategy for making sure numbers fall favourably at its special meeting of shareholders this week, or has it just forgotten to pay the phone bill? The...

We need a smarter debate on developing northern Australia Northern futures, northern voices: It seems everyone has ideas about how Australia’s north could be better, but most of those ideas come from the south. In this six-part weekly series, developed by the Northern Research Futures Collaborative Research Network and...

About I-FED Since the 1950’s, the Etheridge Shire in North Queensland, Australia has been recognised for its enormous potential for large scale irrigated agriculture due to its; climate, soil, topography, and abundant and reliable water. Integrated Food and Energy Developments Pty Ltd (IFED) has been established to realise this potential....

Senior investment bankers expect a busy end to 2013 for floats, with a rush of initial public offerings (IPO) expected before Christmas, according to The Australian Financial Review today. SingTel-Optus’s satellite division is among the most closely-watched potential floats, valued at about $2 billion. SingTel is reportedly mulling taking the...

Is our Australian grocery market one of the most concentrated in the world? “With one of the most concentrated food retail sectors in the world dominated by the supermarket duopoly, the barriers to making it easy to buy local food in Australia are significant. It is time for Australia...

This week Mines and Money  Group on Linked In presented  4 Perspectives on Chinese Outbound Investment as it relates to  Mining Investment and Capital Raising but it has underlying themes for every enterprise looking to China. This series of interviews comes from Mines and Money Beijing, in which M&M asked...

Australia was the largest and one of the fastest growing project finance markets in the world in 2012, according to Thomson Reuters Project Finance Review.1 Australian-based projects secured US$42 billion of financing during 2012, a sizable increase of 70 per cent compared to 2011. Its value accounted for over...

BoxRED have been mandated to  an Australian company bringing an integration of new and innovative online wagering and social gaming products to the Australian market. BoxRED are to identify and facilitate the introduction of  global investors and/or strategic investors to place between AUD3Mil and AUD5Mil in a pre IPO capital raising....

We have identified a investment opportunity in the Financial Services sector with strong upside potential (since mandated by the company on 22 August 2013) . Company has proven technology and large addressable global markets and is at early revenue stage. The soft commercial roll-out of a suite of new platform...