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International equities, across all geographical locations, will be the big performers in 2005 according to Perpetual’s Brigette Leckie, who said that some world markets a...
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Macquarie Bank will follow AMP into offering a capital-guaranteed exposure to Chinese equities, through the Macquarie Reflexion Trusts to open in June....
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Balanced funds posted their first month of negative returns in March since July last year, on the back of weaker share markets....
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Reports of the property market’s death have been greatly exaggerated, according to a new survey showing a 14.7 per cent rise in mortgage sales across Australia during Mar...
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Listed property trusts were the darling of the Australian market in 2004, returning 32 per cent. No one believes there will be a repeat performance in 2005, but more than...
Financial planning
You have to be of a certain age to remember it, but at one stage back in the 1980s there was five times as much money in unlisted property funds and syndicates as there w...
Editorial
Julie Lockeridge sold her first term allocated pension in December to an elderly Queensland couple. They weren’t in very good health - the wife had to spend two days a we...
Editorial
Financial planners are afraid of the investment properties owned by their clients, claims Ark Group chief executive Maurice Goldberg....
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Asian markets like Japan, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan will outperform in 2005 as opposed to Europe and the United States, while the Chinese market will grow by seven per ...
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The Australian equities market continues to defy expectations of a slowdown from last year’s growth highs, rising 2.2 per cent in February....
Financial planning
US economic growth could be as low as 1 per cent in 2005, leading global markets to suffer as the world’s largest economy enters “the first phase of a painful decline”, a...
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Australian investment managers are predicting a jump in demand for alternative investments in 2005 as investors go in search of opportunities in a slowing equities market...
Financial planning
Craig Phillips discovers that currency is a key consideration when it comes to investing in global equities....
Financial planning
Equities are back and like clockwork so is investor interest, with investors returning to shares from defensive asset classes such as property and cash after the exodus o...
Editorial
The labels ‘value’ and ‘growth’ are simplifications of styles which are much more complex, writes Robert Keavney....
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