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• BHP, Rio tipped to buy up this year.

  - 2007-03-06

  Byline: Jamie Freed Mar 06, 2007 (The West Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- A report from Ernst & Young anticipates that in 2007 BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto will be turning their spare cash into acquisitions. Speculation has pointed to overseas companies...

  Tags: Alcan Inc., Alcoa Inc., Australia, Ernst & Young LLP, FINANCE, Investment

• Caught in the middle

  - 2007-02-01

  BIG FOUR FIRMS HAVE TRADITIONALLY AIMED HIGH. BUT NOW THAT THEY'RE TURNING THEIR ATTENTION TO THE MIDDLE MARKET, JUST WHERE DOES THAT LEAVE MID-TIER FIRMS? Something's in the air. First Big Four firm Deloitte swooped on the Melbourne office of mid-tier firm BDO. Not long after it scooped...

  Tags: accountancy, Australia, Deloitte LLP, Ernst & Young LLP, FINANCE, Government, Investment, KPMG Consulting Inc., merger, Regulations, Sarbanes-Oxley, Strategy

• Macquarie snares big name from E&Y.

  - 2006-09-27

  Byline: Cathy Bolt Sep 27, 2006 (The West Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Martin Alciaturi from Ernst & Young (E&Y) is to become Macquarie Bank's head of corporate finance in Perth. Alciaturi has resigned as head of E&Y's Perth transaction advisory...

  Tags: Australia, equity, Ernst & Young LLP, FINANCE, Investment, M&A, merger

• Laundering laws up the ante.

  - 2006-06-07

  Byline: Bruce Andrews Jun 07, 2006 (BRW - ABIX via COMTEX) -- New anti-money laundering AML laws are expected to take effect in Australia in 2007. Banks and financial services groups are apprehensive about the impact of the laws on their business. ...

  Tags: Australia, Ernst & Young LLP, FINANCE, financial

• Trustees, get your funds in order.

  - 2006-05-30

  Byline: Caitlin O'Toole May 30, 2006 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Sam Rubin, of IOOF, says trustees of self-managed superannuation funds SMSFs in Australia have a number of obligations to beneficiaries. He claims trustees should assess whether they are...

  Tags: Australia, beneficiary, deduction, Ernst & Young LLP, FINANCE, Rubin, Taxes

• Growth predicted in subscriber market.

  - 2006-05-03

  Byline: Simon Canning May 03, 2006 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Pay television is likely to enjoy a healthy future in Australia. Ernst & Young research shows that average satellite TV spending per user rose by five per cent in the...

  Tags: Australia, Cable, Ernst & Young LLP, NETWORKING, satellite, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, TVs

• [348] Ongoing process of tax reform needed: E&Y report.

  - 2006-03-15

  Byline: Terry Hayes Mar 15, 2006 (Weekly Tax Bulletin - ABIX via COMTEX) -- An analysis of the impact of Australia's tax system on investment has been released by Ernst...

  Tags: Australia, Ernst & Young LLP, FINANCE, Taxes

• Credit crunch to come, say liquidators.

  - 2006-02-09

  Byline: Damien Lynch Feb 09, 2006 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Calendar 2005 proved to be a relatively quiet year for Australia's insolvency firms. New ...

  Tags: Australia, Ernst & Young LLP, Hutchison

• It's the year of the acquisition.

  - 2006-02-06

  Byline: Alex Wilson Feb 06, 2006 (The Sydney Morning Herald - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The business world in Australia is expecting solid profits and more acquisitions in 2006. Ernst &...

  Tags: acquisition, Australia, Ernst & Young LLP, FINANCE, Investment

• Investors keep Australian market afloat on a sea of IPOs.

  - 2005-12-13

  Byline: Leon Gettler Dec 13, 2005 (The Age - ABIX via COMTEX) -- On 13 December 2005 Ernst & Young and Thomson Financial released data on initial public ...

  Tags: Australia, Ernst & Young LLP, FINANCE, Investment, investor, IPO