Summary: A discussion paper released by the Reserve Bank this week sent a shockwave through the housing market by painting a bleak picture of subdued residential price growth ahead. When the central ...

Summary: Many fund managers fail to beat the index as they own too many stocks. Holding larger positions of the right stocks helps to boost performance. I am proposing two high-conviction, actively ...

Summary: A number of Government changes to superannuation, including the decision to cut the concessional contributions cap to $25,000 and to limit the account balance for tax-free earnings in ...

Summary: The rise of US yields is driving up yields around the world. Expect higher volatility in global rates, amplified by geopolitical risks and commodity price movements. Key take-out: Structural ...

To offer investors participation in the Asia-Pacific region's superior growthwith protection from short term volatility. In doing so the Fund aims to reduce volatility during the market's down-cycles ...

Ten Network is set to restart talks with its suitors this week after a break in takeover discussions over the festive season, but are prospective buyers starting to fall by the wayside? Elsewhere, the ...

The penny might finally be dropping even in the union movement about what a parasitic outfit General Motors is. The modus operandi of transnational car companies is to look for the best deal they can ...

Extreme weather events, such as the heat waves that have broiled the High Plains and Midwest this summer, smashing thousands of temperature records, are a direct consequence of global warming, ...

India, one of the fastest growing developing countries, which is fairly well-integrated with the rest of the world through both trade and capital flows, has a high stake in global recovery in the ...

Over the past three years, conventional wisdom divided the world's major economies into two basic groups - the Brics and the sicks. The US and the EU were sick - struggling with high unemployment, low ...

Offshore UK commercial property funds offered rich investors high-return punts on UK real estate during the recent boom. Now they're sitting on some pretty big losses. The structure of the funds means ...

Hey, great news! Australia’s unemployment rate fell by 0.4 per cent last month! Did you hear? You didn’t? That’s funny. I was sure Joe would tell you. What do you mean, it rose by 0.4 per cent? Oh, ...