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The use of stock options as part of executives’ remuneration led to an unspoken pact between investors and corporation management that has exacerbated the current malaise...
Funds management
The rise of boutique fund managers has been propelled by their ability to deliver at a time when institutional fund managers are finding it tough. MARK KNIGHT reports on ...
Editorial
The 1990s were actually quite unusual in that we did not experience one instance in which markets fell by more than 20 per cent. On average, we experience bear markets ev...
Financial planning
Gearing has become a little too popular recently for DOMINIC McCORMICK, who says the reasons for its growth are not always in the interests of the client....
Financial planning
Alternative investments challenge the very core of investment theory because they open up the debate between relative and absolute returns. As FIONA MOORE reports, it is ...
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
The listed property trust asset class will finish the financial year with at least its second strongest performance ever, having already achieved an index return of just ...
Financial planning
Australian investors have reviewed their bullish optimism over the performance of the Australian share market and are now bracing themselves for the full impact of a down...
Financial planning
Gearing is not for all investors, and advisers that recommend gearing inappropriately should expect to face the consequences. GEOFF DAVEY looks at the fate of the client,...
Financial planning
Product innovation and demographic change is making margin lending products more attractive to a wider audience. SUE WEBSTER reports on the push of margin lending into th...
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...
Funds management
Market volatility helped finalists in the fixed interest category of the 2002 Fund Manager of the Year awards achieve some impressive performance. John Wilkinson reports....
Financial planning
Influential funds management researcher Stephen van Eyk has placed his weight behind smaller boutique fund managers, urging investors to consider boutique managers as opp...
Funds management
Rothschild has launched a new web-based calculator for financial planners to explain hedging funds to their clients....
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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...