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Financial planning

Australian investment managers are predicting a jump in demand for alternative investments in 2005 as investors go in search of opportunities in a slowing equities market...

Financial planning

A buoyant Australian equity market helped fund managers to their best returns in over a decade last year....

Financial planning

For the second year in a row David Haintz has been ‘highly commended’ for the Financial Planner of the Year award and it comes as no surprise to those who know him....

Financial planning

ROSS KELLY reports on why chasing past fund returns is a backward strategy....

Financial planning

The good news looks like continuing for most Australian superannuation fund members, with the latest InTech data pointing to double digit returns through to the end of th...

Life/Risk

Commission disclosure under Financial Services Reform is contributing to Australia’s chronic underinsurance problem rather than alleviating it and driving churning betwee...

Funds management

The term emerging markets tends to invoke images of economic meltdown, high volatility and risk. But strong returns from the asset class in 2003 redefine these stereotype...

Financial planning

Equities are back and like clockwork so is investor interest, with investors returning to shares from defensive asset classes such as property and cash after the exodus o...

Financial planning

International investment flows into the Asia-Pacific markets is set to rise by more than 40 per cent by 2006 for the three preceding years, with market analysis firm Data...

Financial planning

John Wilkinson pinpoints the global hot – and not-so-hot spots – in international equities....

Financial planning

In the last 12 months, hedged global small caps have struck gold. John Wilkinson reports....

Editorial

The labels ‘value’ and ‘growth’ are simplifications of styles which are much more complex, writes Robert Keavney....

Financial planning

Rivkin Financial Services suitor Farooq Khan has succeeded in his crusade of seizing control of the listed financial services group with the ousting of RFS chief executiv...

Financial planning

Macquarie has joined a limited number of platform providers that are rebating fund manager volume discounts back to clients....

Financial planning

Three quarters of financial planning clients do not see a need for addition regulation, and while a surprising number actually read Statements of Advice, only 11 per cent...

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