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Financial planning

The administrators of the failed Wattle Group have pleaded guilty to charges of being knowingly concerned in the promotion of prescribed interests in contravention of the...

Financial planning

Growth funds are beginning to reward the faith some investors have placed in them after the median fund experienced five successive months of positive returns, following ...

Funds management

The Russell Investment Group has claimed tactical asset allocation seldom adds value to diversified portfolios and investors who time the market and tilt portfolios to fa...

Financial planning

Absolute return fund manager Basis Capital Management has had its successful flagship fund made available to the retail market, with both BT and Macquarie now offering th...

Financial planning

The valuation gap between growth and value stocks has narrowed significantly both domestically and globally, research-house Assirt claims after completing its annual mana...

Financial planning

Australian managed funds experienced outflows of more than 10 per cent over the past financial year as investors took flight to bonds, cash and property in what was anoth...

Financial planning

Research conducted by the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) has found that managed funds are still the leading investment vehicle for advisers despite the fact that many ar...

Financial planning

With only five growth-oriented investment managers ending the financial year in positive territory the median likewise focused superannuation fund has returned -2 per cen...

Financial planning

Growth-orientated superannuation funds look set to deliver consecutive negative financial year returns for the first time in three decades according to InTech....

Financial planning

The strengthening Australian dollar, up 4.5 per cent for May, is attracting investment in Australia and is working to the benefit of both the local equity and property ma...

Editorial

What if much of what you knew about investing was wrong? Dominic McCormick reports....

Editorial

Despite growing assets under management by some $1 billion over the past year, Citigroup Asset Management (CAM), the Australian asset management business of the US-based ...

Financial planning

UBS Global Asset Management has taken out the Money Management/Assirt Fund Manager of the Year award for the Australian fixed interest category beating out finalists IOOF...

Editorial

If the world enters a deflationary period, how much would we need to change our thinking about investment? Rob Keavney investigates....

Financial planning

Growth-options within superannuation funds - those with a 70/30 split between growth and conservative investments - are experiencing one of their most volatile periods of...

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