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Tightrope: What makes a ‘real entrepreneur’?
USA Today – Aug 29, 2007
I don’t feel like a real entrepreneur. In fact most of my friends don’t see me as a real business owner because I work from home.
A brief interlude – Superannuation – Money – Business – Home -…
The Age – Aug 29, 2007
You got to 65 had a send-off from work colleagues received a goldwatch and looked for other ways of spending the day. Now increasingly it means a temporary respite from full-timework: a holiday a few hundred rounds of golf perhaps a small homerenovation followed by a further excursion into the workforceperhaps part-time or in a different job setting. A recent Putnam Investments survey of 177 Australian financialadvisers on their clients’ retirement plans shows that about 25 percent of retirees go back to work in some fashion after they have”retired”. According to the research only 28 per cent of those in the 50to 59 age group are looking to retire while 71 per cent choose toretire between 60 and 69. But many are forced to retire earlierthrough redundancy or other pressures. And those choosing to return to work in retirement appear to bedoing so out of choice rather than financial necessity – at thisstage anyway.
Home > Business > Property funds at risk from capital controls…
Nation Multimedia – Aug 29, 2007
Last week due to the US sub-prime-mortgage crisis foreign unit holders accounting for 20-30 per cent of the fund's value cashed out of the Quality Houses Property Fund sending its net asset value tumbling 9. Virapan said that on the other end of the property fund business new enterprises had been scarce this year because foreigners had refrained from investing in new factories and warehouses. The majority of the Ticon Property Fund's tenants are Japanese. They contributed 62. 4 per cent of gross revenues as of last month. But the uncertainty has arisen from Singaporeans the second-largest group of tenants and Western investors.
Home > Business > BlueScope looks abroad Increase in exports…
Nation Multimedia – Aug 29, 2007
Major export markets include the EU and India where BlueScope has a partnership with Tata Steel. President Peter Wilson said the company had a strong commitment to strengthening its business footprint in Thailand for the long term. The company has spent 120 million Australian dollars (Bt3. 41 billion) to build a second metallic-coating line and pre-engineered steel buildings at its production complex in Map Ta Phut over the past three years. That investment is set to double the annual production capacity for metallic coating from 175000 tonnes before to 375000 tonnes. "We have long-term confidence in Thailand.
Home > Business > Collection of VAT in July shows 1.8% growth
Nation Multimedia – Aug 29, 2007
8% growthPrivate consumption in July has show signed of recovery though it remains weak while private investment still slowed down. Collection of valueadded tax last month expanded 1. 8 per cent year on year after it contracted 0. 5 per cent in the month before. This indicated a slowly recovery of private consumption said yesterday Pannee Sathavarodom director general of the Fiscal Policy ffice.
Home > Business > SET seeks exemption for ETF
Nation Multimedia – Aug 29, 2007
Published on August 29 2007. So far the BT has defined the ETF as a mutual fund which is required to set aside reserves. "We expect the BT to exempt the ETF.
ttawa Business Journal – Home Page
ttawa Business Journal – Aug 29, 2007
The hard part is convincing the 55-plus group that they should put off that trip around the world or the move to the cottage to log a few more years at the office. But there are things that businesses can do to sweeten the deal. Michel Brazeau executive vice-president for eastern Canada at EDS explained how the information technology and business outsourcing company is working hard to make it easier for workers to stay on the job longer. BJ: Is your organization worried about your skilled workers retiring en masse? BRAZEAU: Yes. It’s a concern because we are a high tech systems integration company. We spent a lot of time and a lot of money investing in training for our resources. The classic model of my father’s period if you will of companies offering money for early retirement well there’s not a whole lot of early retirement packages going on in our marketplace.
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