Perth Education City (PEC) has secured a $325,000 grant and "in principle" funding of a further $1 million from the state government to promote Western Australia's international education sector this financial year.
LISTED Perth-based financial planning firm Plan B Group Holdings is finalising the purchase of Aspire Finance's $240 million mortgage book in its second transaction of the calendar year.
ALL deals during the fiscal year were done, or proposed, at a time of financial crisis, attracting a certain level of admiration from the investment community for the successful combatants.
PERTH-BASED property investor Aspen Group has warned it will be forced to dispose of properties in one of its unlisted funds at fire sale prices should an attempt to raise money from the already embattled unit-holders fail.
ALMOST six months after 150 workers lost their jobs following the closure of Carrier Air Conditioning's Redcliff factory, the company is overhauling its ownership structure.
IT requires plenty of upfront capital, has high ongoing costs and, if it fails, the owner is almost certain to be forced into exile in a bid to escape out-of-pocket members.
AUSTRALIA'S largest financial planning network, Professional Investment Services, has urged clients who invested almost $300 million in Great Southern schemes to avoid taking immediate legal action against the failed agribusiness provider.
WESTERN Australia's $840 million international education sector could be under threat as tensions escalate following a series of attacks against Indian students on the east coast.
ONE year after fighting off a hostile takeover attempt, Ausdrill managing director Ron Sayers has declared the business he founded more than 20 years ago to be takeover-proof, and the likely instigator, not prey, of future acquisitions.
ONE by one they fall.he council investment saga started almost two years ago with the realisation that one of their popular investments, a Lehman Brothers-arranged investment branded Federation, was exposed to the American sub-prime mortgage market, and l
IT is the time of year when the agribusiness marketing campaigns run hot, margin lenders boost their advertising spend and an array of exotic investment product spruikers start selling.