EQUITY MARKETS

Editorial

While many investors are steering clear of offshore markets, GEORGE LIONDIS reports that Frank Russell has stuck to its guns with its heavy international equities weighti...

Editorial

The success of Australia’s Listed Property Trust (LPT) sector is driving the products, and those who invest in them, increasingly offshore. GEORGE LIONDIS reports....

Financial planning

While the listed property market escaped the clutches of the bear which has ravaged the Australian share market in the 2002 financial year its double digit returns for th...

Financial planning

AMP has today confirmed its sensitivity to the world’s investment markets after earlier this week announcing that it is expecting to face greater than anticipated losses ...

Editorial

The AMP group has announced that it is expecting to face greater than anticipated losses in its investment income as a result of the continuing downturn on global equity ...

Financial planning

Citibank will be launching a capital guaranteed product in response to what it perceives as the caution many investors have adopted in response to the downturn in global ...

Financial planning

“It’s been a tricky year in stocks, and it’s definitely been a stock picker’s market,” Platinum Asset Management International equites manager Toby Harrop says....

Funds management

If the three finalists in the property securities category of this FMOTY awards agree on anything, it is that the listed property sector is unlikely to emulate in 2002 th...

Financial planning

International equities have experienced a massive dive in positive fund performances. KATE KACHOR looks at the reasons for bad performances and how managers are repairing...

Financial planning

al">An asset class can be out of favour for a whole host of reasons....

Financial planning

It is as spectacular a fall from grace as you are ever likely to see. In the heady days of 1999 and early 2000, stock markets were floating on a wave of tech-fuelled euph...

Financial planning

Derivative products have been sidestepped by planners but as Jason Spits writes they are moving out of the shadows....

Financial planning

Australia’s retail managed funds market has overcome the market turmoil and investor insecurity that followed the September 11 terrorist attacks in the US to record posit...

Financial planning

Listed property became a safe haven for many investors in the latter half of last year and may continue to be so as returns remain solid. John Wilkinson examines what is ...

Funds management

Investors in the US are set to usher in the new year with a much needed boost from equity markets in the fourth quarter of 2001, according to the latest stock index repor...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

4 months 1 week 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. ...

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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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ASIC has issued a warning to financial advisers to ensure they are complying with client consent requirements when entering into ongoing fee arrangements....

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