Average SMSF contributions have grown from $40,700 last year to $47,533 for the 2011/2012 financial year, according to the recently released Multiport SMSF Investment Pat...

SMSF trustees are increasingly turning to term deposits to maximise their returns on cash holdings, according to RaboDirect....

SMSF contributions jumped almost $7,000 on average in the 2011/12 financial year, which also saw a shift away from equities to cash and term deposits....

With Australian interest rates likely to continue falling, investors should consider reallocating out of cash and into global equities, according to Threadneedle head of ...

Standard & Poor's half-yearly fixed interest peer review said active managers continued to struggle in 2012 as issues in peripheral Europe showed no signs of abating....

ipac's Jeff Rogers details the thought processes behind looking through the prevailing investor pessimism and reaffirming the efficacy of long-term strategies....

There are two aspects of the European debt crisis that investors need to consider, according to Paul Taylor, head of Australian equities at Fidelity Worldwide Investment....

Like their foreign counterparts, Australian bonds seem to have gone from risk-free return to return-free risk. Matthew Drennan explains why bonds are not the safe haven, ...

Piers Bolger believes that emerging market debt will continue to grow in prominence and provide an alternative debt solution to developed market economies....

The insistence of policymakers on intervention in free markets is a worry, writes Martin Conlon....

Dr Stephen Nash looks at asset allocation and why some balanced funds are not so balanced....

The majority of Australian REIT managers outperformed the index over the past 12 months, although performance suffered as a result of global uncertainty, according to Zen...

Many prominent investors, including Warren Buffett, have recently raised doubts about gold as an investment. Dominic McCormick questions their views....

Offered exclusively through the Macquarie Professional Series, the Winton Global Alpha Fund has once again been awarded the Money Management/Lonsec Fund Manager of the Ye...