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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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