GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS

Financial planning

Despite the current clamour for high yielding stocks in a sluggish market, big dividend yields aren’t always a recipe for investment success according to Goldman Sachs Au...

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Editorial

When the chief executive of the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA), Pauline Vamos, last week issued a release clearly aimed at countering adverse rep...

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Editorial

Australian investors seem certain to close out the year with their allocations set to conservative and with half an eye on a struggling Europe, but as Mike Taylor reports...

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Editorial

Asset allocation is becoming critically important in a world of shorter and more extreme investment cycles. This is where multi-asset funds come in, writes Janine Mace....

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Editorial

Are multi-asset funds the next big thing, deja vu - or perhaps a bit of both? Janine Mace reports....

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Financial planning

The overlap between mortgage broking firms and other segments has raced ahead in 2011 as companies search for diversified revenue streams in a gloomy financial environmen...

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Financial planning

With both tranches of the Future of Financial Advice draft legislation now released, participants in a Money Management roundtable discuss the good, the bad and the ugly ...

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Funds management

van Eyk Research has completed a yearlong review of its strategic asset allocation, resulting in a similar model to three years ago due to concerns over volatility and in...

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Superannuation

A roundtable of industry experts has suggested the Government's Stronger Super changes have been weakened by the absence of an answer on concessional contributions....

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Financial planning

<b>Latest Edition:</b> Criticisms of financial planners by compensation lawyers were recently labelled shameless by industry leaders and dealer groups, while the Governme...

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Financial planning

A group of institutional managers have formed a new body aimed at arguing against the direction of current investment theory and regulation....

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Editorial

Investor sentiment is still low and financial advisers are blamed for losses. Advisers will face a difficult period in the next 12 months, but will be presented with a ra...

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Financial planning

The debt problems in the US have provided challenges for China but, according to Jonathan Wu, there is every sign that the Chinese Government will adopt an appropriate re...

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Financial planning

Major considerations for investors in Asia are the same as for any asset class - risk and return. In Asia though, the potential returns and risks can be very different fr...

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Financial planning

Government intervention and intrusive regulation is a major cause of concern for the heads of global companies, whose reluctance to spend is slowing the global recovery....

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Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....

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Pinnacle Investment Management has announced it will acquire strategic interests in two international fund managers for $142 million....

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