AUSTRALIAN EQUITIES

Funds management

The US$4 trillion Mellon Financial Corporation is sizing up a plan to set up an Australian equities funds management arm....

Financial planning

MLC is claiming to have achieved better after-tax returns and lower transaction costs just months after introducing it unique ‘emulation’ method for running a multi-manag...

Financial planning

The margin lending market has grown to record highs on the back of buoyant equity market returns, new figures show....

Financial planning

The Australian equities market continues to defy expectations of a slowdown from last year’s growth highs, rising 2.2 per cent in February....

Financial planning

Australians own more shares directly than anyone else in the world but are as likely to get stock tips from a newspaper as from a financial planner, according to a study ...

Editorial

Promina’s financial services division has contributed $132 million of the group’s $458 million profit for 2004, although the wealth management businesses chipped in just ...

Financial planning

Balanced funds that were overweight in Australian shares performed best last month, as the ‘January effect’ lifted the local bourse but passed over the US and Japanese ex...

Financial planning

US economic growth could be as low as 1 per cent in 2005, leading global markets to suffer as the world’s largest economy enters “the first phase of a painful decline”, a...

Financial planning

Not-for-profit super funds and commercial master trusts were equally represented among the best performing publicly available retirement products in 2004....

Financial planning

Good stockpicking will be more obviously rewarded in 2005 than it was during the blanket gains of the Australian equity market this year, according to Tyndall Investment ...

Financial planning

A buoyant Australian equity market helped fund managers to their best returns in over a decade last year....

Financial planning

Tim Farrelly uncovers the outlook for Australian equities over the next decade....

Financial planning

Australians investing in international equities received a windfall this year, with signs of recovery in all major world markets....

Financial planning

Equity markets will continue to outstrip more conservative asset classes over the next year, but will struggle to match the level of out performance they achieved in 2004...

Financial planning

Equity markets will continue to outstrip more conservative asset classes over the next year, but will struggle to match the level of out performance they achieved in 2004...

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