AUSTRALIAN EQUITIES
Financial planning
The steep rise by Australian equities in the last few months has driven investor sentiment into positive territory again, according to CoreData’s Investor Equities Sentim...
Funds management
As the Australian population ages and people live for longer, healthcare property occupancy and new builds will only increase, according to Australian Unity....
Funds management
Fidelity concerned that many investors fail to analyse what drives higher yields within companies....
Financial planning
Australian investors expect the All Ordinaries index to return 8 per cent over the next 12 months, according to an Investment Trends Survey. ...
Superannuation
When moving beyond ongoing high allocation to cash and fixed income, trustees of self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) should consider the benefits of diversifying in...
Funds management
The growth of local emerging market debt is a sustainable long-term trend that Australian investors are yet to take advantage of....
Editorial
Darren Cunneen outlines six key behavioural traps to be aware of when investing, and some tips for helping clients to sidestep them....
Funds management
WAM Capital has posed the question of whether 2013 will be the year of the bull amid a strong start to equity markets, at the same time as announcing a strong half-year p...
Funds management
A new report by Vanguard Investments has warned investors not to lose sight of properly diversifying their portfolio in the search for higher yield....
Editorial
Dr Stephen Nash uses both domestic and international data to argue that equities will not protect investment portfolios if there is a spike in inflation....
Funds management
The RBA's pre-emptive interest rate cut in October could be the first of many and give underlying support to the Australian equity market, according to Don Williams....
People & Products
Brett Chatfield has stepped down as Fidante's institutional business development manager (BDM) to take up the role of investment manager public markets at Cbus....
Funds management
Australian real estate investment trusts (A-REITs) returned 32.8 per cent over the year to 31 December 2012, outperforming all other growth in Russell Investments' latest...
People & Products
Elan Miller has been appointed senior portfolio manager of Pengana Capital's Australian Equities Market Neutral Fund....
People & Products
Former BlackRock equities specialist Jonathan Koh has been appointed to the role of investor at boutique Australian equity manager Greencape Capital....
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