GLOBAL ECONOMY

Editorial

The international investment market is starting to turn, says Greg Germon, although trying to pick the low-hanging fruit is still a tricky business....

Editorial

The poor performance of many developed international share markets over the past few years has strengthened the case for investors to allocate a greater proportion of the...

Financial planning

It’s been a tumultuous 18 months – but as in all walks of life, the good times will certainly follow the bad, says DAMIAN KINGTON...

Financial planning

AMP Financial Services has reported a steady but ‘soft’ performance for the first half of 2002, reflecting lower cash flow figures as a result of poor investment market c...

Financial planning

Most superannuation funds will face a less than rosy end to the financial year with prediction that they will see out the 12 months with negative returns....

Financial planning

Economic expectations revealing positive future prospects for the Australian dollar, along with the arrival of currency hedged funds, could mean international currency in...

Funds management

Market volatility helped finalists in the fixed interest category of the 2002 Fund Manager of the Year awards achieve some impressive performance. John Wilkinson reports....

Financial planning

The confidence of Australian investors in the Australian economy and their investing environment has improved significantly since the end of last year, according to the l...

Funds management

>AMP head of strategy and chief economist Shane Oliver says while emerging markets are generally out of investor favour, the asset class is geared to the global economy a...

Financial planning

Investors have continued to embrace the venture capital sector, figures from the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics survey (ABS) have revealed, despite the slowing of...

Financial planning

If you needed even more proof that economics was far from an exact science then there is little need to look beyond the last twelve months....

Financial planning

America’s Certified Financial Planner (CFP) Board is planning to relinquish some of its control to a new ruling world board, leaving the final say on global CFP matters t...

Financial planning

Professional Investment Services (PIS) accounting arm Professional Accounting Limited (PAL) has cancelled a planned acquisition and expansion after failing to secure adeq...

Editorial

The National Australia Bank (NAB) has reported a 36 per cent slide in its profit for the full year to the end of September, despite a healthy operating profit from its we...

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...

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