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Financial planning

US economic growth could be as low as 1 per cent in 2005, leading global markets to suffer as the world’s largest economy enters “the first phase of a painful decline”, a...

Financial planning

Russell Investment Group has halved the exposure to Australian listed property in its diversified funds, directing the money to offshore property securities because of wh...

Financial planning

Goldman Sachs JBWere has re-opened its popular emerging leaders fund to new investments after closing off the funds in late 2001 when assets under management reached some...

Financial planning

Former Advance Asset Management boss Stephen Lam has re-emerged more than a year after leaving the St George group, accepting a newly created chief investment officer rol...

Financial planning

The Chinese wall between Deutsche Asset Management’s Paladin and Sentinel Australian listed property teams will come down next month, when the two merge....

People & Products

Super fund Sunsuper has appointed Mercer Investment Consulting to advise on its range of investment products....

People & Products

Goldman Sachs JBWere Asset Management has remixed its staff composition in a bid to become more aware of developing market needs within the Australian asset management in...

Editorial

Retail investors are diving into option trading, writes Dominic McCormick. But will they be out of their depth when markets take a plunge?...

Editorial

While the short-term outlook for sharemarkets is looking rosy, investors shouldn’t be complacent about looking for alternatives, writes Dominic McCormick....

Financial planning

Less than half of active investment managers that outperform over a three year period will be able to match the result over a subsequent period, according to a new resear...

Editorial

Dominic McCormick expresses some serious concerns in his opinion piece on a new investment fund....

Financial planning

The financial planning job market has moved on from its compliance myopia. Ross Kelly has the low down on the skills that will get you that dream job....

Financial planning

Perpetual Investments has played down research house fears its new in-house international equities arm will be a far removal from the way the asset class has been managed...

Financial planning

Investors have been urged not to compare super fund performances based on style names after an industry survey found only a tenuous link between the style names funds mar...

Financial planning

Some small cap funds have reopened their doors in recent times, but others think the sector is on the way down. Liam Egan reports....

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