The trend in health care spending all over the world is "up," whether growth is based on rising living standards or pure inefficiency. Several Australia-based dividend-payers stand to benefit.

A downward shift in the official growth-rate target for China caused an uproar. What's left to ponder is what it will take--in terms of resources, in particular--to sustain an emerging middle class in the Middle Kingdom, and elsewhere across Asia, for that matter.

Cross-border taxation is getting more simple. This doesn’t mean it’s any less aggravating than the domestic kind.

Rules that will require verification of eligiblity to receive "tax treaty" withholding rates on dividnes paid by Canadian corporations to non-Canadians won’t take effect until Jan. 1, 2013. You and your brokerage have all of 2012 to get your paperwork together.

The Canada Revenue Agency and interested parties on the US side of the border are still hammering out a solution to the CRA’s new “eligibility verification” rules relating to “tax treaty” dividend withholding rates.

In a special look-in on our new coverage Down Under, Canadian Edge Associate Editor David Dittman analyzes opportunities in the aftermath of a fear-driven selloff that's left many resource-related dividend-payers attractively priced.

How They Rate coverage and Portfolio Holdings have put a premium on high quality from the very start of CE. That’s the key to building wealth over the long term.

Not all companies we cover in Canadian Edge are perfect wealth-builders. In fact 19 that once paid dividends no longer do. But there are legitimate turnaround stories to be told, and there’s one company that joined the ranks of dividend payers after its introduction to the coverage universe.

Like Canada’s Big Six banks, Australia’s top four financial institutions enjoy unique domestic positions. They’re also enjoying the wealth effects of a resource boom.