AUSTRALIAN SHARE MARKET

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Investors are bullish about increasing their exposure to the Australian sharemarket, despite the low-growth conditions affecting economies and share markets world wide, a...

Financial planning

The Australian managed fund industry is bracing itself for the repercussions of the terrorist attacks in the US as investors respond to the crisis by looking for safe hav...

Financial planning

Andrew Mohl has added his voice to the chorus of fund managers calling on the government to allow equity and property investments to form part of lifetime annuity product...

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Last night’s budget announcement will have minimal effect on financial markets, according to financial services industry sentiment....

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While investors in the local share market may have suffered losses on the market last year, the Australian market fared much better than most overseas markets....

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Most commentators analysing the current lowly status of the Australian dollar have got it wrong, according to research by State Street....

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Rothschild Australia Asset Management’s listed investment company The Five Ar-rows Australia Fund Ltd (FAAFL) is set to be wound up as Ralph related tax changes have made...

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In an effort to attract clients who wish to invest into low risk schemes, Investors Mutual and South Australian based friendly society Lifeplan have launched a joint fund...

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Credit Suisse has enjoyed the highest returns among its 33 competitors for the fi-nancial year to date, according to the latest InTech growth funds survey....

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Dow Jones Indexes has launched an Australian index which covers 95 per cent of the Australian share market....

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The funds management arms of ANZ and St George have both moved to establish in-dex funds in a drive to provide low cost managed funds to retail investors. Both of the ban...

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Fund managers are becoming increasingly cautious as the risk of a major correction looms on the investment horizon. ...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

3 months ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

3 months 1 week ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

5 months 1 week ago

ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

3 weeks 4 days ago

A former Victorian financial adviser has been sentenced after stealing $4.4 million from clients, family and friends to feed his “raging gambling addiction”....

3 weeks 2 days ago

A financial advice firm has been penalised $11 million in the Federal Court for providing ‘cookie cutter advice’ to its clients and breaching conflicted remuneration rule...

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