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Financial planning
Current poor returns from the bond market could signal Australia once again plunging into a recession according to research house Standard & Poor’s....
Funds management
Solid stocks like infrastructure and financial companies, well researched low-grade bonds and unlisted property trusts have been identified as the best investment classes...
Financial planning
Diversified balanced and growth funds have long been seen as an easy solution for the core of an investment portfolio, or even the whole of some (especially smaller) port...
Editorial
Asset allocation strategies in 2006 will be very similar to what strategists were doing last year, says AMP Capital Investors head of investment strategy Shane Oliver....
Financial planning
So you have a million dollars to invest. Let’s start by making some general assumptions; you own the property you live in, have no outstanding debts, you’re under 50-year...
Funds management
Returns from hedge funds have declined over the past five years and are not expected to return to levels seen in the 1990s in the next three to five years despite optimis...
Financial planning
Inflows into Australia’s life insurance companies fell by 1.6 per cent last year from $34 billion to $33.4 billion, reversing a 0.6 per cent growth in inflows recorded in...
Financial planning
Basis Capital and Colonial First State manage the two best Australian funds in the international fixed interest space according to boutique research house Zenith....
Financial planning
A new research report compiled by van Eyk has revealed Australian income fund managers are increasingly looking to boost their risk/return profiles through the combinatio...
Funds management
Bonds and high yielding investments will be the place to be by the end of the decade, according to former Prime Minister Paul Keating who warned investors that the “great...
Funds management
The recent stellar performance of commodity markets has prompted the separate release of two capital guaranteed commodity products for retail investors by Macquarie Portf...
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The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...