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Funds management

Dedicated short bias significantly improves performance from April returns....

Financial planning

The AAG Agri-Index has risen for a second consecutive fortnight, adding 1 per cent to its value over the period from the May 29 to June 11....

Financial planning

Rival fund manager Balmain Trilogy aims to replace City Pacific as fund manager, 97 per cent of votes received in favour....

Editorial

How safe are cash and bonds? Dominic McCormick examines the state of these asset classes and whether the perception that they are investment safe havens is accurate....

Financial planning

Nearly a third of Australia's micro-businesses are carrying a tax debt and, more broadly, billions of dollars are now owed in business debt....

Funds management

Will take time before investor confidence is completely recovered, due to severity of the sector slump earlier this year....

Financial planning

A Challenger Group submission has argued that compelling Australian retirees towards annuities could relieve pressure on the Age Pension....

Funds management

Managed futures continue to suffer consecutive negative returns after strong 2008 performance, but hedge funds expected to make positive returns in May....

Financial planning

Despite the challenges of the past year, Chris Cuffe's Third Link Growth Fund has outperformed the All Ordinaries Accumulation Index by more than 17 per cent....

Financial planning

There is likely to be renewed interest in hedge funds, particularly from institutional investors, writes OLIVER SCHUPP....

Superannuation

SAM WALL responds to financial planners’ top queries following the recent Federal Budget....

Financial planning

The total superannuation market sector is projected to increase by an annual average growth rate of 8.43 per cent to $2.3 billion, according to the Dexx&r Market Projecti...

Financial planning

Volatility levels looking more similar to those prior to the Lehman Brothers collapse....

Financial planning

The early months of the year may have represented the lowest ebb for Australian financial planners, according to the results of new Wealth Insights research....

Financial planning

The perception of financial advisers continues to drop across the board....

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