Great Southern Plantations is one of the fastest growing banks that you’ve never heard of.For the most part of the “noughties” Great Southern has been writing loans to plantation growers as part of an attractive tax-based investment scheme, which has a product ruling from the Australian Taxation Office.The company is not actually a bank, but rather a forestry company. Great Southern also does a lot of lending, and takes decisions about which loans are funded by its partner in this […]
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In The Black: On the (high) rise
Only a short time ago the Australian commercial property sector was looking rather off-colour, but now for the first time in four years demand for office space is on the up. From In The Black October 2005.
In the Black: No place like home
Should you invest in a home or in the stock market? From In the Black September 2005.
In The Black: Crash? What crash?
I looked behind the C word headlines to see what was really happening in the property market for the August 2005 edition of In The Black.
In The Black: Taking matters to art
There’s more to corporate art collection and art investment than meets the eye. From In The Black.