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Funds with a small-cap bias were the big winners in the latest quantitative FE.Fundinfo Crown Ratings, writes Laura Dew , with five small-cap funds being upgraded to five...

The fund managers that received the most five Crown downgrades had a lot of 19 mixed asset funds demoted collectively, data finds....

Most of the new equity funds given Crown ratings only received one to two Crowns, according to FE/Fundinfo data....

It is well-known that Australians love talking about property, writes Oksana Patron, so how has the AREIT market performed and which sectors should they look at in the fu...

Rather than an unwelcome compliance burden, the Design and Distribution Obligations and the ASIC Interventions Power can be a force for a better and more sustainable busi...

Nikko AM portfolio manager Chris Rands looks at how historic bond performance can help us in the debate between term deposits and fixed rate bonds. ...

The US/China trade war may be dragging on, writes Laura Dew, but are we really facing the threat of a global currency war and will either side be a winner at the end?...

Mike Taylor writes that in the absence of a definitive methodology for ensuring clients are rebated the grandfathered remuneration which would otherwise have gone to fina...

Australia’s financial services regulators have been handed greater regulatory powers but is there a danger that their interventions will result in distortions to otherwis...

Outsider really wonders whether the “barefoot investor”, Scott Pape, is really barefoot given his book sales and the spotter’s fee he is probably owed by a particular sup...

Regular readers of Outsider will remember that he recently questioned what, precisely, born again One Nation Senator, Malcolm Roberts, would bring to last month’s Financi...

Outsider has never exactly been quick to embrace new technologies and still hankers after his old Olivetti portable typewriter when it comes time to bash out a newsflash ...

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