AUSTRALIAN SHARE MARKET

Funds management

Investors of the Australian long/short sector will be disappointed with the underperformance of the Australian shares long/short sector if they remain focused on short-te...

Funds management

Macquarie Securities has paid a $120,000 penalty after the corporate regulator found it had breached market integrity rules and narrowed filter parameters. ...

Funds management

Global share strategies beat their Australian counterparts on average, with the median manager returning 12.7 per cent on an unhedged basis....

Funds management

Australian share fund managers faced a tough November, with results ranging between 3.9 and -10.2 per cent....

Funds management

Australia’s Big Four banks may be popular with shareholders, but they are struggling to convert them into clients, research reveals....

Funds management

The median Australian share fund manager was below par from the index return by 0.3 per cent over October, Morningstar Institutional Sector Survey showed....

Funds management

Growth in the Australian ETF market is continuing to rise as it hit a record high of $12.4 billion in assets under management in August, according to BetaShares....

Editorial

A quick look at Australia's changing demographic profile raises many questions about the future for the retirement market, but also shows the hunt for dividend yield is f...

Superannuation

Chant West data showed super funds saw positive growth in July, with the median growth fund (61-80 per cent growth assets) producing 1.2 per cent...

Funds management

Australian investors are increasingly positioning their portfolios for a potential pullback in the share market....

Financial planning

ETF specialist BetaShares has launched a new investment fund on the Australian Securities Exchange. ...

Superannuation

While the quantum of overseas shares held in SMSFs has been increasing, it is still miniscule as a percentage of total SMSF assets. ...

Superannuation

Global equities make up only a small proportion of total self-managed super fund (SMSF) assets and investors are “missing the boat”, according to Insync Fund Managers....

Editorial

With the share market growing at a slow pace, 2014 is likely to be a year of consolidation for Australia, write Roger Bridges and Jason Kim. But the dollar could be the w...

Editorial

With the share market growing at a slow pace, 2014 is likely to be a year of consolidation for Australia, write Roger Bridges and Jason Kim. But the dollar could be the w...

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