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Financial planning

Many investors are growing bullish about the global economy, with falling market prices in the United States (US) and continuing sovereign debt issues in Europe creating ...

Superannuation

The Government yesterday announced a $55 million bailout package for superannuation fund members caught out over the collapse of Trio Capital, but the package excludes SM...

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Funds management

Fund managers warn that blindly relying on growth stocks to provide outperformance will not work in the changing economic environment....

Financial planning

A Victorian man has been arrested and charged in connection with the collapse of the Dollarforce group, which raised more than $24 million dollars from investors through ...

Funds management

With price to earning (PE) ratios falling dramatically over the last decade, now is the time to buy global stocks, according to Insync senior portfolio manager Bob Desmon...

Financial planning

Former director of Chartwell Enterprises and one of Australia's largest Ponzi scheme operators, Graeme Hoy, has been sentenced to 13 years and nine months in jail owing i...

Financial planning

Law firm Slater & Gordon will file a proposed settlement of a class action against Sandhurst Trustees Limited in relation to the collapse of Fincorp Investments....

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Financial planning

International small cap stocks have outperformed both large and mid-caps over the past decade, but investors need to show commitment if they want to fully capitalise on t...

People & Products

Liquidators have been appointed to Empower Invest and Newcastle Palais Holdings - two companies that operated an unregistered managed investment scheme - after the compan...

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Financial planning

Morningstar US head argues investor experience can count for more than total returns when weighing fund performance....

Financial planning

Michael Collins explains why Asia is the new home of initial public offerings....

Financial planning

Cash remains king in the minds of many clients as they monitor the slow recovery from the global financial crisis and, as Benjamin Levy reports, it rests with advisers to...

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Financial planning

Boutique fund managers have questioned the results of research released by Datamonitor showing that 80 per cent of independent investors would only buy assets from large ...

Editorial

When even municipal councils were subjected to multi-million dollar losses through the global financial crisis, Mike Taylor writes that the Government has few options oth...

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Editorial

China leads the field when it comes to emerging markets, but there are some attractive alternatives in the sector. Benjamin Levy reports....

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