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Australians are continuing their push into SMSFs, but most financial advisers have not thought about the risks associated with a direct equity portfolio, according to Ins...

Financial planning

Australians are continuing their push into SMSFs, but most financial advisers have not thought about the risks associated with a direct equity portfolio, according to Ins...

Financial planning

Equities are still attractive on a valuations basis, but volatile market conditions are likely to test the nerve of value investors in 2012, according to van Eyk head of ...

Financial planning

Equities are still attractive on a valuations basis, but volatile market conditions are likely to test the nerve of value investors in 2012, according to van Eyk head of ...

Editorial

All the signs are showing that the share market is reaching its low point, argues Dominic McCormick....

Financial planning

ETF specialist company BetaShares has described 2011 as having been a watershed year for the Australian ETF industry, with ASX listed ETFs attracting over $500 million in...

Financial planning

Australian financial planners and their clients have had to live with higher than normal levels of market volatility for much of the past three years as both a consequenc...

Financial planning

The Supreme Court of New South Wales has approved the Commonwealth Bank's acquisition of Count Financial....

Financial planning

Eligible employees will each be offered up to $1,000 of ordinary shares under the Macquarie Group Employee Share Plan....

Editorial

Managed funds are supposedly a non-transparent and expensive way of investing, while ETFs are increasingly touted as low cost investment saviours. Graham Hand outlines ho...

Funds management

Australian exchange traded funds more than doubled their September intake in October, increasing total market capitalisation by $342 million to $5.2 billion....

Superannuation

Aaron Dunn lists some of the strategies that self-managed super fund members can start to think about to help bolster their superannuation savings in recovering markets....

Financial planning

Major considerations for investors in Asia are the same as for any asset class - risk and return. In Asia though, the potential returns and risks can be very different fr...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has announced that MF Global Group has been placed into administration, affecting a number of companies in Aus...

Financial planning

With Chi-X Australia launched yesterday as a competitor to the Australian Securities Exchange, the take-up of Iress Market Technology's multi-market solution has been a s...

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