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Financial planning

The global financial crisis (GFC) has caused unnecessary concern around more complex investment products, leading investors to miss out on significant gains, according to...

Editorial

Robert Keavney considers the active versus passive funds management debate and concludes that both sides’ arguments are too simplistic....

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Life/Risk

The Tax Office has issued an alert about life insurance bonds issued from tax havens to Australian residents that are aimed at circumventing tax payable under foreign inv...

Financial planning

With universal rejection of the proposal to mandate superannuation investment into infrastructure assets, the search for alternative methods to meet the shortfall in infr...

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Editorial

Trustees should be free to make investment decisions without regulatory influences that create artificial markets for certain classes, writes Pauline Vamos....

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Financial planning

A reluctance to commit to infrastructure investment may prompt the Federal Government to look to alternatives such as bonds to fund future projects....

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Financial planning

Three people who ran an investment advice business without being licensed have been given prison sentences, although all were fully suspended....

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Financial planning

The occurrence of range-bound markets is an interesting dynamic for managed futures and generally means that investors should adopt a long-term time horizon when investin...

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Superannuation

Can inflation-linked Commonwealth government and semi-government bonds provide a suitable investment option for those needing a truly defensive portfolio? Stephen Hart in...

Editorial

Doug Turek describes how bonds can be used as an easy-to-drive vehicle to a successful retirement....

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Funds management

Equity market gains and stabilising economic activity help returns in several funds....

Financial planning

The AMP Capital Asian Equity Growth Fund and the AMP Capital Corporate Bond Fund have been added to new platforms, making them accessible to more investors....

Financial planning

Liquidators confirm Timbercorp will not be able to make interest payments due at the end of the month....

Financial planning

ROGER BRIDGES considers the changing nature of fixed interest....

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Editorial

DAMON TAYLOR reports on the successes – and failures – of fixed interest investments in light of the global financial crisis....

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