EQUITY MARKETS

Financial planning

Global equity markets are turning towards the start of a new cycle, says Goldman Sachs Asset Management co-head of global equity Andrew Orchard....

Financial planning

Global equity markets have been slow to react to aggressive rate cuts but Chris Selth says it is too early to dismiss the significance of these moves. He says a more resi...

Financial planning

Rob Keavney is no stranger to controversy. A recent article Keavney wrote to counter some of the extremes of exuberance on hedge funds sparked a number of detailed respon...

Editorial

Despite the best efforts to create an international investment hub in Australia, the local industry is still tied to what happens in the traditional markets of Europe and...

Editorial

Macquarie’s overall profits of $242 million in the year to March 31 announced today included a loss of around 3 per cent made by its fledgling financial services group (F...

Editorial

As the push into defensive assets continues while markets head south, neglected asset classes continue to attract more of the spotlight. However Rob Keavney argues not al...

Financial planning

The message repeated throughout the AMP annual general meeting today was that while global economies are showing weaknesses, AMP’s outlook for 2001 was positive....

Financial planning

Salomon Smith Barney (SSB) has expanded its neutrally branded IndexShares product range with the introduction of IndexShares 100 High Yield Instalments....

Financial planning

In the year of the tech-wreck in global equity markets, declining interest rates and a slowing global economy, those fund managers who stuck to investment fundamentals ha...

Editorial

As always, developments in the equity market have had a powerful influence on the investment decisions made by fund managers specialising in property. With the slower equ...

Financial planning

Technology stocks are cyclical, according to Salomon Smith Barney Asset Management's chief economist Brian Parker....

Financial planning

International shares had a tough run in February, thanks to continued downturns on the Nasdaq and European markets....

Financial planning

The Australian Scholarships Group Friendly Society (ASG) has launched two new education funds, enabling investment in fixed interest securities for the first time....

Funds management

Hedge Funds of Australia (HFA) has continued its roll-out of hedge funds for retail investors with the launch of a suite of three funds....

Funds management

Asset classes encountered another topsy turvy month in the last month of 2000 with poor results in equity markets juxtaposed against a soaring listed property trust class...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

1 month 3 weeks ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

2 months ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

4 months ago

Entireti has unveiled the new name for the AMP financial advice businesses that it acquired last year....

4 weeks ago

A Sydney financial adviser has been permanently banned from providing any financial services, with the regulator deriding his “lack of integrity, trustworthiness and prof...

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Minister for Financial Services, Stephen Jones, has provided further information about the second tranche of the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO) reforms....

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