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Financial planning

The strengthening Australian dollar, up 4.5 per cent for May, is attracting investment in Australia and is working to the benefit of both the local equity and property ma...

Editorial

What if much of what you knew about investing was wrong? Dominic McCormick reports....

Editorial

Despite growing assets under management by some $1 billion over the past year, Citigroup Asset Management (CAM), the Australian asset management business of the US-based ...

Financial planning

UBS Global Asset Management has taken out the Money Management/Assirt Fund Manager of the Year award for the Australian fixed interest category beating out finalists IOOF...

Editorial

If the world enters a deflationary period, how much would we need to change our thinking about investment? Rob Keavney investigates....

Financial planning

Growth-options within superannuation funds - those with a 70/30 split between growth and conservative investments - are experiencing one of their most volatile periods of...

Financial planning

The concerns raised by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) about the use of hedge funds in superannuation could just as easily be levelled at traditiona...

Financial planning

Research house Lonsdale Securities (Lonsec) has added eight hedge fund/fund-of-funds (FOFs) products to its ‘recommended’ list within its Hedge Fund Sector Review and has...

Financial planning

Industry research house Lonsdale Securities (Lonsec) has signed an agreement with corporate credit ratings agency Rapid Ratings to provide it with credit ratings on the i...

Financial planning

Equity markets still have some way to go before they reach long term positive territory. Jason Spits looks at the hurdles that lie ahead....

Editorial

Be sensitive to your clients’ concerns and address them with information that reflects their original investment objectives....

Financial planning

When Perennial Investment Partners was launched by IOOF as a new boutique funds management arm in 1999, IOOF’s plan was to become a significant player in both retail and ...

Editorial

A damning new report on the hedge fund industry in Australia has found that many products do not constitute hedge funds at all. Authors of the report, MARTIN GOLD and PAU...

Editorial

Short-term market forecasts are about as useful as horoscopes, says DOMINIC McCORMICK....

Financial planning

Lifeplan Funds Management has broken the $1 billion funds under management barrier....

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