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Nervous investors are moving into cash and term deposits as the result of uncertainty in the stock market....

Financial planning

Nervous investors are moving into cash and term deposits as the result of uncertainty in the stock market....

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Editorial

With talk of interest rate rises shifting to the possibility of a rate cut, Dr Ron Bewley weighs up the outlook for asset classes in Australia and abroad....

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Financial planning

The UK should start targeting inflation based on an example set by Australia and China, according to AllianceBernstein economists in Europe, who claimed it would help avo...

Accounting

Accounting jobs are up around 20 per cent compared to the same time last year, despite a slight dip in the month of June, according to Ambition's Accounting Jobs Index....

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Financial planning

The MSCI Korea Index and the MSCI Taiwan Index will be maintained in 'emerging market' status - at least until the MSCI's next Annual Market Classification Review in 2012...

Funds management

The preference for international equities over Australian equities continues, according to panellists discussing asset allocation at the 2011 Morningstar Investment Confe...

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Funds management

The elevated Australian dollar is likely to continue for some time, meaning that investors may need to look to hedged global equities to return alpha, according to Eight ...

Financial planning

A Victorian family who allege they lost $400,000 due to flawed investment advice is suing Morgan Stanley Smith Barney....

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Editorial

Following the recent devastation in Japan, Ron Bewley asks: What does it take to shake our market?...

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Editorial

Robert Keavney debunks the widely held view that strong economic growth is linked with the performance of a country's stock market....

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Editorial

Although emerging markets are currently in favour, Tom Stevenson argues that 2011 could well be a successful year for the US stock market....

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Financial planning

Mathews Capital Partners has refuted suggestions that concentrated positions in its Velocity Fund lead to negative risk, saying a thorough research process has led to the...

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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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Editorial

Clay Carter examines the MSCI World Index and explains why investors need to consider a benchmark unaware approach to portfolio construction....

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