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Financial planning

CMC Markets has used its annual global outlook to predict that despite predictions for growth of between 2.5 per cent and 3.5 per cent, investors will remain cautious in ...

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Financial planning

Global investment manager Standard Life Investments has joined the chorus of those suggesting that investors are increasingly ready to exit cash and other so-called "safe...

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Editorial

By concentrating investment on a narrow range of Australian assets, investors might be exposing themselves to more, rather than less risk, according to MLC’s Michael Kara...

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Editorial

Investors are not always comfortable with the decisions made by fund managers, especially during volatile periods. Some managers cave in to their demands, while others do...

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Funds management

There are signs that investors may be embracing hope, according to Hyperion's Tim Samway....

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Editorial

Financial advisers must be conscious of making their advice easy for clients to understand and knowing the difference between wants and needs, writes Mark Knight....

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Editorial

Zurich's Angus Crennan argues that traditional defensive assets are no longer delivering the desired results. So, what is the future of the current “safe havens”?...

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Financial planning

Some investors want to "dip their toes" into the investment world by comparing their asset allocation and performance with those of their peers....

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Editorial

With fixed interest investments becoming increasingly popular with all types of investors, Michael Frearson writes it is crucial that they know what to look out for....

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Editorial

The process of ‘priming’, often seen in advertising, taps into the bias in one’s decision-making. Nick Armet explains this process has implications for investors and thei...

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Editorial

ETFs have been growing at a rapid pace in the last few years, but as Janine Mace writes, this might be due to their potential, rather than the recent and current achievem...

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Editorial

Allan Gray Australia's Johan de Lange says investors should not be settling for less but demanding better returns from their fund managers....

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Financial planning

A new product has been launched in Australia targeted at investors interested in property opportunities in the US....

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Funds management

Investors have turned conservative in the wake of the US election, worried about the fiscal cliff and the Eurozone....

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Financial planning

New State Street research points to Governments spooking investors who then fail to act in their own best interests....

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