australian investors

Financial planning

Conservative attitudes drive increase in fixed rate home loans

According to Mortgage Choice, Australian investors' conservative attitude has driven an increase in fixed rate home loans in August....

Financial planning

Investors reluctant to switch banks, survey shows

A new survey suggests a lack of awareness among Australian investors about interest rates and the time it takes to make a switch to another bank....

Financial planning

Investors unlikely to jump ship

Australian investors are unlikely to jump ship and switch to another super fund despite poor sentiment and low returns, according to a survey from CoreData....

Financial planning

BetaShares' 'BEAR' to provide hedge against Australian equities drop

BetaShares has launched a new product which it claims will allow investors to hedge against a decline in the value of the Australian equities market....

Financial planning

Foreign investors buying up the farm: AAG

The 'serious money' being funnelled into Australian agribusiness is coming from overseas, according to Australian Agribusiness Group managing director Marcus Elgin....

Financial planning

ASIC winds up $3.6-million MIS

ASIC has wound up an unregistered managed investment scheme known as Master Fund, which extracted $3.6 million from 40 Australian investors....

Financial planning

Apostle partners with Dundas to target post-retirement segment

Apostle Asset Management has formalised a distribution partnership with Edinburgh-based boutique equity manager Dundas Global Investors Limited to target the post-retirem...

Funds management

Investors dug into hole with resources: IOOF

There is a danger Australian investors have been dug into a hole because of the market focus on resource stocks over the past 10 years, according to IOOF's head of Austra...

Superannuation

Vanguard passes on cost savings

Vanguard has moved to make its offering more attractive by passing on cost savings on its exchange traded fund (ETF) products....

Superannuation

Taking advantage of market rallies

Events since the beginning of this year should have reminded Australian investors of the dangers of missing out on market rallies, according to a senior analyst within bo...

Policy & Regulation

Fee-wary investors shun market neutral sector

Market neutral funds have been the best performing sector over the past five years, but high management fees are putting Australian investors off, according to research h...

Financial planning

AQR fund reaches $500-million milestone

AQR Capital Management has pointed to its new offering in Australia - the AQR Global Risk Premium Trust Fund - having reached a $500-million milestone....

Superannuation

Expense ratio declines on Vanguard index

Vanguard has announced the expense ratio for the Vanguard All-World Ex-US Shares Index ETF has declined from 0.22 per cent p.a. to 0.18 per cent per annum....