FINANCIAL CRISIS

Funds management

New analysis reveals the degree to which Australian asset managers have used super fund appetites to lead in infrastructure....

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Last year saw one of the major investment research houses, Standard & Poor’s (S&P), exit the Australian market. ...

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Editorial

In any investment category there is invariably a broad spectrum of views, many of which are in outright opposition. Nick Armet from Fidelity looks at the behavioural prob...

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Funds management

Investors should look beyond volatility as a key measure of risk and consider a potentially more destructive threat, according to asset manager Alliance Bernstein....

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Funds management

Zurich won first place in the property and infrastructure category of this year's Money Management/Lonsec Fund Manager of the Year awards off the longevity of its investm...

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Editorial

We may not be as rational as we think in our assessments and reactions to the market, and vivid memories of the recent past may subconsciously distort our judgement. But ...

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Editorial

While the Australian economy has been expected to be affected only tangentially by fiscal problems experienced elsewhere, at an investment level there are strong effects ...

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Funds management

Australians who lost money investing in the now-collapsed LM First Mortgage Income Fund have limited opportunity to recoup losses due to bad advice, Slater & Gordon has w...

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Financial planning

APRA’s Charles Littrell argues the case for political bipartisanship on supporting the financial services regulators....

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Financial planning

Australian investors expect the All Ordinaries index to return 8 per cent over the next 12 months, according to an Investment Trends Survey. ...

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Funds management

Latest Investment Trends index reveals a spike in investor sentiment, with concern levels hitting a 40-month low....

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Editorial

Perpetual's Matthew Sherwood argues it is time for corporate Australia to deliver on the growth expectations that have supported share prices until now....

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Funds management

In signs of a notable shift for a traditionally cyclical asset class, emerging market (EM) economies are slowly becoming more structurally sound due to macroeconomic chan...

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Editorial

The context of ‘financial repression’ requires investors in all asset classes to make appropriate strategic adjustments, according to Fidelity's Nick Armet....

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Life/Risk

Challenger may be driving a comeback in lifetime annuity products, says Plan For Life Actuaries and Researchers after reviewing 12 months of its sales to September 2012....

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