How to construct a winning investment portfolio
Financial planner Claire Mackay CA shares her approach to creating a great investment portfolio for you and your family...
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The strangest excuses for not paying your tax on time
Each year people fail to pay their tax on time. We asked the Australian Tax Office and New Zealand’s Inland Revenue for some of the strangest excuses they have received...
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Is stock picking dead?
With the asset management industry struggling and robo investors on the rise, will there be a role for professional investors, stock pickers and investment advisers in the future?...
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Facial share and the beard tax
A beard tax? Not by the hairs of our chinny chin chins says the Beard Liberation Front...
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Would you take Warren Buffett's wager?
In 2005 legendary investor Warren Buffett made a ten-year wager with investment professionals. Would you have taken it?...
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Inland Revenue: 2016 report card and 2017 plans
What Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand’s members thought of New Zealand’s Inland Revenue service in 2016 and what can be expected in 2017...
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Do you have an exit plan?
More than a decade ago I took a calculated risk by becoming a business owner. I stepped away from the relative safety of employment at global financial institutions and into my own private wealth...
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The global mess of free trade agreements
Winners and losers in the spaghetti-like global mess of free trade agreements...
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Financial literacy education a growing industry
Do financial literacy programmes work? And is there a risk they might be ineffective or just PR exercises?...
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The role of accountants in a digitalised tax system
A digital revolution is occurring at the Australian Tax Office and New Zealand’s Inland Revenue...
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Measuring Australia's GST gap
Tax gap estimates track the performance and integrity of the tax system – but how accurate is it?...
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Australian GST reform debate heats up
Australia can learn a lot from New Zealand’s GST reforms but there are no easy fixes...
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The dementia epidemic and financial control
How capable is an ageing population of making complex financial decisions, and what happens when cognitive abilities decline?...
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Leading from the front with Lyn Provost
New Zealand’s Auditor-General, Lyn Provost FCA reflects on leadership, paving the way for other women, and the state of the public sector...
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Career progression via specialisation
Chartered accountant Alex Canale on the career advantages and client benefits of being a specialist...