Business Class, MIS and more in WA Business News

Wednesday, 14 February, 2007 - 14:15

In this week's hard copy edition of WA Business News:

Julie-anne Sprague explores the South West and talks travel with Rio Tinto's Sam Walsh in our relaunched monthly lifestyle/travel monthly feature, Business Class.

Janelle Macri looks at WA's non-forestry Managed Investment Schemes and how Federal Government tax changes could impact on them;

Jenelle Carter catches up with Aspen after their $239 million acquisition and talks construction costs with Perth's property developers;

Emily Piesse meets three WA agri-businesses off to the World Agricultural Expo in Tulare, California, and

Mark Beyer takes up the editorial reins by askings how WA's economic good times flow through to the community, and looks at ASIC's new hard line approach to its auditor rotation policy

Our Book of Lists ranks the top 12 marketing and market research companies in WA

Tim Treadgold asks if anyone can regret a rise in company share prices

And Joe Poprzeczny wonders whether we should be a little more circumspect about trade with China

All this and more in this week's edition of WA Business News, available tomorrow.