investors

Its a new year and it's welcome, but investors can't look forward to much of a change. Uncertainty about the progress of both the Australian and world economies will continue and...

The costs of the Coalition scheme will probably not be significant.

Widespread concern about major costs for share investors if the Coalition wins the election and implements its...

Continuing high rates of clearance at recent auctions and many sales at prices considerably above vendors' reserves indicate lower interest rates are contributing to a boom in...

Japan is ageing faster than any other developed economy. It is also shrinking. Abenomics may turn out to be a trick without a treat. 

Japan has posted its highest level of...

Tuesday's budget, as would only be expected in an election year, contained no nasty surprises to upset ordinary taxpayers.

Thanks to the...

World sharemarkets were upset this week by the terms of the long-awaited bailout of the Cypriot banking system. The major concern of investors was not with the bailout, which was widely...

Charles Gave, of GaveKel Research in Hong Kong, wrote in a note last week that roughly a quarter of the world's financial assets are in equities and three-quarters are in debt....

Share prices and investor confidence, interest rates, the effect of the Italian election on stock markets and possible returns for super funds this year were among the wide range of...

Since 1900 Australian equities have arguably been the best performing of all the stock markets around the world.

The risk premium, the return in excess of the real bill rate, has...

Data released this week provides welcome news for super fund members. After five long and worrying years, balanced and growth super funds have recovered all the losses suffered during...