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Feature articles relating to finance and treasury.

Risk and renew

Treasury: There is no doubt the role of corporate treasury is changing, and there is strong demand for choice of corporate treasury systems. Susan Campbell and Jan Barned explain why.

Behaviour issues

The Australian dollar experienced astonishing volatility in 2007, and many are expecting more of the same in 2008.

A return to safer lending practices

Treasury: Peter Pontikis FCPA investigates how central banks responded to the sub-prime crisis that erupted in the USA last year

Who’s afraid of CDOs?

Debt instruments: US sub-prime debt has become a dirty word in the financial world, as indeed has its sister phenomenon, the CDO, writes Peter Pontikis FCPA.

Faith in the system

In seeking to tap into the burgeoning Islamic market, Western banks are learning to accommodate laws such as the one that prohibits interest payments.

Can private equity help a business?

It can have its problems, but private equity investment can also bring a suite of deft skills - as well as major cash - in the right context, finds Giles Parkinson.

Connecting the dots

Gen Y is bringing its chat tools to a workplace near you, but the outcome could be good or bad news depending on how these tools are used.

Small target

Private equity could prove to be a cash cow for Australian SMEs, but not without a few key precautions.

Business buccaneers

Are private equity funds barbarians at the gate, or the brand new face of corporate Australia?

The reluctant boom

The value of Australia's chief commodity and resource exports has never been higher. So, why does Australia have a trade deficit despite the commodities boom? Hans Weemaes explains.

Banking on business

Competition for the Australian business banking dollar has never been more intense.

Emotional Rescue

An opportunity to vastly improve the banking relationship with SMEs might lie in Emotional Intelligence.

It's all in the budget

Public sector: accurate forecasting skills are just as vital for the public sector as they are for companies, writes Stephen Firth FCPA.

A foreign affair

An increasing number of Australian companies are negotiating international trade finance for themselves.

No transfusions required

Billionaire Lindsay Fox reportedly told a conference recently: 'Cash is like blood, if you don't have it you're dead'. Jan Barned has some advice on how to stay alive.

Who really wins from an off-market share buyback?

Some investors would be better selling on the open market, according to new research by Kim Wyatt and Jarrod McDonald.

Is no News bad news for ASX?

Deborah Tarrant looks at what the future holds for the Australian Stock Exchange minus News Corp.

When boring is a turn-on

Julianne Dowling looks at why old trusties like BHP Billiton are still worth investing in.

It's all in the vault

Susan Campbell looks at how an international framework may help to curb future banking disasters.

Anyone got a fiver?

Feature article on the borrowing options available to SMEs and how money lenders measure up.

Future gazing

Feature article on new additions to our future exchange - a milling wheat futures contract.

Shaken, not stirred, the aussie bond market

Feature article on the implications of the government's debt-free dream following plans to scrap government bonds.

Funds and games

Feature article on the Melbourne Commonwealth Games and the challenges of bringing such a huge event to Victoria.

Champagne football

Feature article providing an insight into the Manchester United Football Club.

World vision

Feature article on where Australian financial markets are heading.

Living in sin?

Feature article on socially responsible investments (SRI).