Small Outlay, Large Returns

Shouting Shane Warne a coffee has already paid dividends for Bryce McGain.

Dellacqua Vows To Scale New Highs

With hard work paying dividends, the 22-year-old is eyeing a top 50 spot, Linda Pearce reports. CASEY Dellacqua never weighs herself and has what she calls a "mental thing" about the skinfold tests she considers so degrading. All she knows, and wants to hear, is that her body fat percentage is shrinking in line with her dress size and so, not coincidentally, is a world ranking that has halved in the past year.

Buoyant Days And Life's A Beach For Baillieu Chiefs

THE owners of E.L. & C. Baillieu Stockbroking have been swimming in cash following record bull-market profits. A bit more than $7 million has been paid out in dividends over the past year or so and directors said that continued global economic growth, coupled with buoyant sharemarket conditions, contributed to the firm's strong profit growth during the year.