EMERGING MARKETS

Editorial

Tom Stevenson examines investment implications as the global population hits the seven billion mark....

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Funds management

Exchange traded fund investors returned to riskier assets in October as fears eased on the European debt crisis and US corporations showed positive third quarter earnings...

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Editorial

As emerging markets wages increase significantly, the core CPI of many developed world economies will rise, and potentially force some central banks to revisit interest r...

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Editorial

As emerging markets wages increase significantly, the core CPI of many developed world economies will rise, and potentially force some central banks to revisit interest r...

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Editorial

There is a striking similarity between what debt-ridden European countries are going through now and what some Latin American countries were going through more than a dec...

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Funds management

Australian exchange traded funds more than doubled their September intake in October, increasing total market capitalisation by $342 million to $5.2 billion....

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Financial planning

<b>Latest Edition:</b> Criticisms of financial planners by compensation lawyers were recently labelled shameless by industry leaders and dealer groups, while the Governme...

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Financial planning

Despite a wave of indiscriminate selling by Western investors, the fundamentals remain strong for Asian equities, writes Tim Stewart....

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Funds management

Median wealth in Australia is the highest of any country in the world, but emerging markets remain the main wealth growth engine, according to the Credit Suisse annual Gl...

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Editorial

India is a country with many challenges. It is a democracy of over a billion people, most of whom live in poverty. However, as Shailesh Jain from Lonsec reports, it offer...

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Financial planning

There is no correlation between a country's gross domestic product (GDP) growth and the real returns of its stock market, according to Vanguard chief investment officer G...

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Financial planning

The search for safety amid global market downturns has hailed the return to more conservative asset classes, according to EPFR....

Financial planning

Morningstar has taken a cautious view of fully hedged international share funds in its International Equities Sector Wrap-up, with only two of the 49 strategies given the...

Editorial

The August market downturn gave the world a big scare and investors seemed to have run for the hills in fear the nightmare from 2008 was returning. Ron Bewley tries to ma...

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Funds management

August was a sombre month for hedge funds as all but two strategies performed well under par, according to figures released by Edhec-Risk Institute....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

4 months 2 weeks ago

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

4 months 2 weeks ago

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

6 months 2 weeks ago

Commonwealth Bank has formally dropped to zero advisers following LGT Crestone’s acquisition of its advice arm – some six years on from the Hayne royal commission. ...

1 week 5 days ago

ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...

4 days 3 hours ago

ASIC has banned a former NSW adviser from providing advice for 10 years for investing at least $14.8 million into a cryptocurrency-based scam. ...

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