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Adam Chang, winner of the 2011 People's Choice award at the Archibald Prize is the cover feature in the current edition of Oriental BQ - the most important Chinese business magazine in Australia with major distribution throughout China.

It is the first time the magazines has featured an artist on the front cover and Chang has four full pages of editorial and images printed in both English and Chinese.

In his native China, Adam Chang is regarded as one of the most powerful painters in the international art world.

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Alistair Bailey, Art Equity's Executive Director of Sales and writer of Art Insight's Market Watch is a regular art market commentator on Sky News Channel's Switzer TV.

View recent Interview - Broadcast 29 November, 2011

Alistair is also a columnist for the Switzer Super Report & columnist for AHA Investor magazine.

Last year the Cooper review recommended to the government that self-managed super funds should be banned from holding art and other collectibles. Both the ALP and Coalition rejected these recommendations.

The government, however, did commit to putting in place some additional super laws that SMSFs would need to follow when the trustees decided to hold such investments.

This month the government released a draft version of the regulations it intends to put in place for July 1. Overall these proposed regulations are pretty good.

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Some investments a fine art
The Australian
1 June 2011