GLOBAL ECONOMY

Editorial

Janine Mace looks at a better-than-expected performance of emerging markets, though challenges still remain....

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Financial planning

CMC Markets has used its annual global outlook to predict that despite predictions for growth of between 2.5 per cent and 3.5 per cent, investors will remain cautious in ...

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Editorial

By concentrating investment on a narrow range of Australian assets, investors might be exposing themselves to more, rather than less risk, according to MLC’s Michael Kara...

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Editorial

Zurich's Angus Crennan argues that traditional defensive assets are no longer delivering the desired results. So, what is the future of the current “safe havens”?...

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Editorial

ANZ has netted a $5.7 billion full-year profit, but its wealth management division has evidenced difficult market conditions....

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Superannuation

Chant West data confirms positive super returns and retail master trusts outperforming industry funds....

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Editorial

Perpetual’s Matt Sherwood explains why recent central bank stimulus has boosted investor sentiment but not solved any of the world's structural problems. ...

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Financial planning

Fidelity’s Tom Stevenson explores some of the questions clients ask their financial advisers – and provides the answers....

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Editorial

While FOFA and a number of other factors have seen many planners moving under the umbrellas of the major banks and institutions, the independent financial advice sector i...

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Editorial

Select Asset Management's Dominic McCormick suspects the recent decline in currency volatility is the calm before a much bigger storm – with significant implications for ...

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Editorial

With bond yields at multi-year lows, BT's Piers Bolger asks whether investing in fixed income continues to make sense....

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Editorial

With the commodities boom having reached its apex, there is little upside left in the Australian dollar, according to Brandywine Global's Francis Scotland....

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Editorial

CommBank reports $7,090 million profit, but weak markets and regulatory challenges drag on CFS....

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Editorial

NAB logs "stable" $1.2 billion quarter with signs of improvement in NAB Wealth....

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Financial planning

The three dominant generations seem to have very different views on investing and are split when describing their worst financial nightmares, according to a new survey re...

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Graeme

FWIW I am a long term holder of both. I am relaxed about my LICs trading at a discount. Part of a cycle. I would like...

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Ross Smith

The term "The democratisation of private assets continues to gain steam" is marketing misleading. There is no democracy...

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I have passed this exam, and it is not easy or fair exam. It's no wonder that advisers are falsifying their results. ...

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AustralianSuper and Australian Retirement Trust have posted the financial results for the 2022–23 financial year for their combined 5.3 million members....

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A $34 billion fund has come out on top with a 13.3 per cent return in the last 12 months, beating out mega funds like Australian Retirement Trust and Aware Super. ...

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The verdict in the class action case against AMP Financial Planning has been delivered in the Federal Court by Justice Moshinsky....

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