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For investors looking for the right combination of property exposure, liquidity and diversification, ‘hybrid’ property funds are emerging as a winning strategy, writes MA...

Financial planning

With the fixed interest index returning 6.4 per cent, investors should be seriously looking at re-entering the sector, according to Tyndall head of bonds Roger Bridges....

Funds management

The Budget changes to funeral bonds have been welcomed, as the asset test exemption is to be increased to $10,000....

Financial planning

The launch of the UBS Absolute Return Series 1 fund makes UBS one of the latest global fund managers to offer a fund that takes different positions within the same asset ...

Financial planning

Credit Suisse has teamed up with Pimco, the 2007 Money Management/IMCA Fixed Interest (Diversified) Fund Manager of the Year, to launch a structured product offering acce...

Financial planning

IXIS Asset Management Australia has secured a $450 million global bond mandate from Colonial First State for the FirstChoice platform....

Financial planning

Australia’s equity, debt, foreign exchanges and derivatives markets have doubled in size over the past five years and reached $100 trillion in turnover in 2005-06, accord...

Financial planning

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Funds management

The Russell Investment Manager Outlook survey has found 49 per cent of Australian fund managers believe the share market is fairly valued, a fall from 60 per cent in the ...

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Financial planning

Global markets are working in new ways, with periods of prosperity interspersed with asset bubbles instead of the traditional economic cycle of boom periods followed by a...

Financial planning

Promoter of property investments Henry Kaye has been committed to stand trial before the Melbourne County Court on a charge of dishonestly obtaining financial advantage f...

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Financial planning

Inflation products are increasingly being adapted for retail distribution, broadening their appeal beyond the institutional space as investors seek new sources of investm...

Financial planning

A sector review conducted by van Eyk has found fund managers offering a minimum strategic allocation of 50 per cent in combined domestic and global hybrid securities have...

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