AUSTRALIAN INVESTORS
Editorial
While equities no longer have the appeal they had prior to the financial crisis, sophisticated fixed interest strategies are springing up in their wake....
Financial planning
According to Mortgage Choice, Australian investors' conservative attitude has driven an increase in fixed rate home loans in August....
Financial planning
A new survey suggests a lack of awareness among Australian investors about interest rates and the time it takes to make a switch to another bank....
Financial planning
Australian investors are unlikely to jump ship and switch to another super fund despite poor sentiment and low returns, according to a survey from CoreData....
Financial planning
BetaShares has launched a new product which it claims will allow investors to hedge against a decline in the value of the Australian equities market....
Financial planning
The 'serious money' being funnelled into Australian agribusiness is coming from overseas, according to Australian Agribusiness Group managing director Marcus Elgin....
Financial planning
ASIC has wound up an unregistered managed investment scheme known as Master Fund, which extracted $3.6 million from 40 Australian investors....
Financial planning
Apostle Asset Management has formalised a distribution partnership with Edinburgh-based boutique equity manager Dundas Global Investors Limited to target the post-retirem...
Funds management
There is a danger Australian investors have been dug into a hole because of the market focus on resource stocks over the past 10 years, according to IOOF's head of Austra...
Superannuation
Vanguard has moved to make its offering more attractive by passing on cost savings on its exchange traded fund (ETF) products....
Superannuation
Events since the beginning of this year should have reminded Australian investors of the dangers of missing out on market rallies, according to a senior analyst within bo...
Policy & Regulation
Market neutral funds have been the best performing sector over the past five years, but high management fees are putting Australian investors off, according to research h...
Financial planning
AQR Capital Management has pointed to its new offering in Australia - the AQR Global Risk Premium Trust Fund - having reached a $500-million milestone....
Superannuation
Vanguard has announced the expense ratio for the Vanguard All-World Ex-US Shares Index ETF has declined from 0.22 per cent p.a. to 0.18 per cent per annum....
Funds management
Perennial conference offered competing, but complementary views, on emerging market investments....
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