investors

Editorial

Observer (2-Jun-2005): Investors LICked by markdowns

In late 2003, I wrote an article which pointed out some of the flaws in the new listed investment companies (LICs) floating at the time, and predicted that investors’ hig...

Financial planning

ASIC investigates investment scheme

An Adelaide-based managed investment scheme that allegedly owes at least 78 investors about $56 million has been closed off by an interim order of the Federal Court....

Funds management

Direct property allocations too low - report

Financial advisers are being encouraged to reassess their typically low allocations to direct property following the release of research which highlights the importance o...

Financial planning

Class action against AM Corp reaches court

Allegations of misleading conduct and mismanagement are behind a class action launched yesterday by 737 investors against AM Corporation founder David Smith and a former ...

Financial planning

Retail manager makes industry fund noises

A retail funds manager has taken a public line on choice of fund more often associated with the industry funds, with Advance Asset Management claiming consumers could be ...

Financial planning

Researcher cheers lack of agribusiness ‘Top 10’

Australian Agribusiness Group has welcomed this year’s lack of a widely publicised “Top 10 list” of agribusiness tax effective projects....

Policy & Regulation

‘10 per cent per month’ scheme wound up

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has moved to wind up a high yield investment scheme which offered investors 10 per cent monthly returns, as part of c...

Financial planning

Three extra cents from Three Pillars

Van Eyk Three Pillars, the listed quantitative investor in Australian equities, has shared its high returns with investors by paying a special dividend....

Accounting

Sydney accountant in court over investment schemes

A Sydney accountant who operated a financial services business without a licence appeared in court yesterday on seven charges resulting from an investigation by the Austr...

Financial planning

Palandri acts against non-payers

Defaulting investors in agribusiness managed investment group Palandri are set to lose their units as the company commences proceedings against them....

Financial planning

Macquarie rebates platform discounts to investors

Macquarie has joined a limited number of platform providers that are rebating fund manager volume discounts back to clients....

Editorial

Alternative investments: more important than ever

While the short-term outlook for sharemarkets is looking rosy, investors shouldn’t be complacent about looking for alternatives, writes Dominic McCormick....

Editorial

Observer: Aspirational investors need to be wary

Dominic McCormick expresses some serious concerns in his opinion piece on a new investment fund....

Financial planning

Investors warned to research super funds

Investors have been urged not to compare super fund performances based on style names after an industry survey found only a tenuous link between the style names funds mar...

Financial planning

Fixed interest faces negative prospects

The Australian fixed interest sector could deliver negative returns to investors next year as it faces a subdued short to medium-term outlook fuelled by anticipated inter...