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Editorial

Schroders' Martin Conlon warns a decline in cash rates and a bond market pricing further cuts could signal the end of the dream run for Australian equities....

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Editorial

iShares Australia's Tom Keenan debunks the myths about the causes of market volatility....

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Funds management

A structural change in investor attitudes means fund managers are now competing in a "savings pool" rather than an "investment pool", according to BT Investment Managemen...

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Superannuation

The equivalent of a large industry super fund moves out of existing funds every year and goes into new or existing SMSFs, according to Townsend Business and Corporate Law...

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Superannuation

The decision of most investors to hoard cash for the past few years was no surprise, but as Damon Taylor reports, the SMSF investment story might be starting to change....

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Financial planning

Being a financial planner feels like living a fairy tale, but perhaps one written by the Brothers Grimm. Bryan Ashenden tells a story about Jack and Jill, two advisers wh...

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Funds management

The past 12 months have been a struggle for emerging market investors, with returns suffering as a result of the shrinking risk appetite of equity investors....

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Financial planning

NAB Wealth launches Super Lever to provide SMSFs to access margin loan arrangements....

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Editorial

The urge to do as others do is a powerful force on our investment decision-making, yet most of us are barely aware of it, according to Fidelity's Tom Stevenson....

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Financial planning

Retail funds grew 4.6 per cent in the March quarter to $510 billion but were still down slightly over a 12-month period, according to Plan For Life data....

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Editorial

Many prominent investors, including Warren Buffett, have recently raised doubts about gold as an investment. Dominic McCormick questions their views....

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Funds management

Spurred on by the growing interest of SMSFs, confidence is slowly beginning to return to the Australian property investment sector as investors become more open to lookin...

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Funds management

The expense ratio for the Vanguard US Total Market Shares Index ETF (VTS) has declined from 0.07 per cent per annum to 0.06 per cent per annum due to savings through grea...

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Editorial

Tom Stevenson discusses the concept of investing in equities – not cash – for income....

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Funds management

Simon Ho, Triple 3 Partners director says investing in volatility is not a passing trend but constitutes a revolutionary new way of investing....

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Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....

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