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Investors rattled by the underperformance of some traditional asset classes over the past few years may be warming to the inclusion of alternatives in their portfolios. C...
Financial planning
With the sun now peeking through on international stock markets, Ben Abbott reports on how fund managers have managed to weather the storm....
Life/Risk
Australian Unity has restructured its life insurance operations, including its bond products, and has spun to divisions out into a new company called Australian Unity Inv...
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 ...
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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...