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Editorial

Alternative investments traditionally offer a buffer against market volatility. Chris Kennedy finds out how they have fared over the course of the last 12 months. ...

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Financial planning

Investec Asset Management is looking to take advantage of what it sees as an opportunity in emerging market debt to acquire new investments from Australian institutional ...

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Funds management

Australians have not yet given up on equities, but this may change due to the current market correction, according to the head of PIMCO Australia, John Wilson....

Funds management

Macquarie Investment Management has taken out the Fixed Interest (Diversified) category of this year’s Money Management/Lonsec Fund Manager of the Year Awards....

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Policy & Regulation

Older savers using interest-bearing products receive tax break....

Financial planning

Listed Australian companies will be able to more easily raise funds from retail investors, and investors will be given tax breaks on interest earned on corporate bonds....

Financial planning

Wealth management firm Yellow Brick Road (YBR) will partner with technology provider OneVue to offer Australian retail investors a new universal managed account (UMA)....

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People & Products

BT Financial Group has appointed former ING Investment Management (INGIM) senior portfolio manager Ron Mehmet as portfolio manager, fixed interest....

Financial planning

Stephen Hart explains how to use hybrid securities in place of equities to reduce risk, but without compromising returns....

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Editorial

The current environment is delivering high yields and attractive risk-adjusted returns in the corporate bond market. Andrew Lill explores the opportunities for investors ...

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Financial planning

Matthew McLenaghan explains how to make a bond fund perform when interest rates are rising....

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Financial planning

Stephen Hart and Bill Keogh explain how an anomaly in the term deposit market means investors can increase returns while reducing risk....

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Funds management

Fund managers have a more cautious market outlook due to sovereign risk concerns in Greece and other European countries, according to the latest Investment Manager Outloo...

Financial planning

Paradigm Wealth Management has transitioned $70 million to its Managed Account Service from traditional platforms, enabling it to implement a true fee-for-service approac...

Financial planning

Two economists have presented contrasting economic outlooks for 2010 at the seventh annual van Eyk conference in Sydney, predicting either a bullish recovery or a bearish...

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MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

2 months ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

2 months ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

4 months 1 week ago

A Sydney financial adviser has been permanently banned from providing any financial services, with the regulator deriding his “lack of integrity, trustworthiness and prof...

3 weeks 1 day ago

Minister for Financial Services, Stephen Jones, has provided further information about the second tranche of the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO) reforms....

2 weeks ago

One licensee has lost 27 advisers in the past week, now sitting at zero, according to the latest Wealth Data figures....

3 weeks 1 day ago