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The listed property trust (LPT) sector has been tipped by Ausbil Dexia to continue to outperform the All Ordinaries index, at least until the end of this calendar year....

Traders on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) appear to be apprehensive about the re-opening of the New York Stock Exchange in less than 12 hours, and have dumped more t...

Financial planners should look to the US for investment opportunities according to Seligman International regional director for Asia, Joseph Lam who says that market is s...

Financial planners face a paradox with gearing as using it to boost a client’s overall returns increases risk....

Investment sentiment has suffered its largest drop since a slump in October 1994 to February 1995....

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...

The world over it has been a particularly volatile period in fixed-interest markets. ...

Tight lending and a focus on quality mortgages gave the top three managers in mortgage funds their award-winning performances in 2001....

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...

Gearing for investment can cover a range of products and strategies. Paul van Rooyen examines gearing in home equity and margin lending as part of a wealth creation strat...

Colonial First State Investment Managers will be expanding its alternative asset management to include multi manager hedge funds by the second half of the year....

The banks have responded quickly to the RBA’s reduction of the cash interest rate by a further quarter of a per cent to 5.5 per cent....

Defensive investment strategies will be crucial in the coming months as advisers reach investment crossroads, according to Deutsche Asset Management chief investment offi...