Property
Finger on the future
Today, Apple releases its iPhone 5, which is bound to cause ripples of excitement around the globe and reinforce Apple's stature as the world's biggest company based on sharemarket value.
Split characteristics
John Kavanagh Investors in high-yielding hybrid securities need to take extra care to understand the risks, the securities watchdog has warned.
It's time to take stock
Nathan Bell My beloved footy side, Hawthorn, is only two games away from premiership glory and I'm cycling to work in a T-shirt. It's springtime, which means it's a good time to spring-clean your portfolio.
Hot stock: Westfield
Greg Smith What's new? Westfield's solid performance continues, with its premium suite of assets and world-class management keeping the mama of shopping centres on top of its game.
Hot stock: CBA
Hot Stock What's new? Shareholders have reaped a nice gain from Commonwealth Bank of Australia this year, with an improved dividend and a share-price gain well ahead of the market.
Uncle Sam on comeback trail
Following the global financial crisis and recession, America is remaking itself.
Murky dangers in dark pools
Richard Livingston Imagine you're doing the grocery shopping. A glance at your Woolies iPhone app suggests you're out of Weet-Bix, priced at $5.49 a box. So you wander over to the cereal aisle to grab one.
Share wars: how the robots are robbing you
David Potts The prevalence of computer-generated trading in the modern sharemarket has created an unpredictable, and sometimes dangerous, environment for investors.
Insight: housing shortage
Clancy Yeates If you keep an eye on the property market, you've probably heard about Australia's housing shortage.
Turnaround rebuilds trust
John Kavanagh The listed property trust sector was a surprise standout performer during the 2011-12 financial year.
David Potts
Let them eat dividends: Reporting season 2012
David Potts Although a slew of companies have already downgraded their profit hopes, market experts are pointing out that returns are higher, even if the outlook remains uncertain.
Switch to safety worked
Annette Sampson Spare a thought for investors in pension products. While all super fund members copped a flogging during the global financial crisis, pension fund investors don't have the luxury of being able to...
Lower your expectations and get rich slowly
Marcus Padley It has been an incredible three decades of asset speculation and price appreciation - in both shares and property.
In the global interest
Barbara Drury PIMCO boss Bill Gross has cult status on global bond markets. So when he recently declared that ''the cult of equity may be dying, but the cult of inflation may only have just begun'', you could...
Home help has strings attached
Most young people struggle to buy their first home. It has never been easy but over the past decade, the big increase in property values has made it particularly hard.
Cashing in on koi
Quirky Investments Koi carp have sold for a few million yen each in Japan, where these sacred fish are bred professionally in the manner of thoroughbred racehorses or show dogs.
Reaping the harvest
Food prices are about to take off again but you don't have to starve to get the better of them.
Annual report health check
Nathan Bell Long, boring, self-serving. That's the sentiment most investors profess towards annual reports. No wonder most end up in the bin. And that's where some belong, but not prematurely.
Borrowing to invest
Lenders are overhauling their margin loans in a bid to overcome investors' reluctance to borrow to buy shares and managed funds.
Foreign investors pull out
Clancy Yeates Foreign governments are among investors threatening to pull the plug on $1 billion in planned investment, in response to the government doubling a key tax on overseas capital.
