Solid stocks like infrastructure and financial companies, well researched low-grade bonds and unlisted property trusts have been identified as the best investment classes...
Diversified balanced and growth funds have long been seen as an easy solution for the core of an investment portfolio, or even the whole of some (especially smaller) port...
Asset allocation strategies in 2006 will be very similar to what strategists were doing last year, says AMP Capital Investors head of investment strategy Shane Oliver....
So you have a million dollars to invest. Let’s start by making some general assumptions; you own the property you live in, have no outstanding debts, you’re under 50-year...
Returns from hedge funds have declined over the past five years and are not expected to return to levels seen in the 1990s in the next three to five years despite optimis...
Inflows into Australia’s life insurance companies fell by 1.6 per cent last year from $34 billion to $33.4 billion, reversing a 0.6 per cent growth in inflows recorded in...
Basis Capital and Colonial First State manage the two best Australian funds in the international fixed interest space according to boutique research house Zenith....
A new research report compiled by van Eyk has revealed Australian income fund managers are increasingly looking to boost their risk/return profiles through the combinatio...
Bonds and high yielding investments will be the place to be by the end of the decade, according to former Prime Minister Paul Keating who warned investors that the “great...
The recent stellar performance of commodity markets has prompted the separate release of two capital guaranteed commodity products for retail investors by Macquarie Portf...
According to a new report released by Lonsec, the time is right for Australian property investors to start looking overseas for better investment opportunities....
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...