AUSTRALIAN INVESTORS
Funds management
Australian investors’ appetite for overseas funds has spiked in the last month, with a growing proportion opting for multi-region investment, a survey shows. ...
Editorial
Australians have sought offshore diversification for years. The logical extension is to think more deeply about how to make offshore exposures complement local ones, acco...
Editorial
As the boom in the Australian economy recedes, investors from this country are beginning to look at rising Asian equities as a strategy to boost returns – but a sense of ...
Financial planning
More Australian investors are intending to increase their exposure to overseas assets, according to the latest Certitude Global Investing Intentions Index....
Superannuation
As Australian investors' love affair with yield continues, SMSF property investment continues to rise. Indeed, for Richard Stacker, head of direct property for Charter Ha...
Superannuation
Australia’s custodian and administration sector has hit $2.16 trillion in total assets under custody for Australian investors, growing by 6.7 per cent for the six months ...
Funds management
Following on from poor performance in 2011, emerging markets (EM) equities delivered strong returns over the 2012 calendar year, with the sector expected to grow in promi...
Superannuation
Term deposits may continue to be a popular investment option for Australian investors but according to CANSTAR, the current low interest rate environment is making it dif...
Superannuation
Australian investors believe global markets will rise over the next year and are cooling in their outlooks for the domestic stock market, according to the inaugural Certi...
Financial planning
State Street Global Advisers has launched an international equities ETF that it claims mitigates currency risk....
Funds management
More than half of Australian high net worth (HNW) investors expect global markets to rise over the next year, while cooling their outlook on the domestic front....
Superannuation
State Street Global Advisors has launched an ETF aimed at providing investors with access to international equities whilst also mitigating against what is an increasingly...
People & Products
UK-based alternative asset manager Man Group has appointed Jamie Douglas as chief executive of its Australian business, Man Investments Australia. ...
Financial planning
Melbourne-based property investment firm Drapac has launched a new product aimed at giving Australian investors access to what it says is the still undervalued US real es...
Financial planning
Wealth summit confirms US investors are just as tentative about getting out of cash as their Australian counterparts....
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