Share Market
Insight: super funds
Insight Good news on superannuation has been hard to come by lately. But there's one trend that's worth welcoming: the long-term decline in fees.
Uncle Sam on comeback trail
Following the global financial crisis and recession, America is remaking itself.
Marcus Padley
You know what they say about assuming anything
Marcus Padley Assumptions are the mother of all mistakes and here are five. Let's start with the basics.
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.
Chasing global returns
John Collett Most share investors are convinced share prices rise fastest in countries with booming economies. But there is little relationship between economic performance and sharemarket returns.
Turnaround rebuilds trust
John Kavanagh The listed property trust sector was a surprise standout performer during the 2011-12 financial year.
Hot stock: Carsales.com
Hot Stock Online classifieds business carsales.com is inviting a speeding ticket because of the rate it is spinning out profits and dividends.
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.
Safe haven may come with hidden risks
Annette Sampson Got a yearning for yield? You're not alone. Income has become the holy grail for many investors trying to cope with the continuing outfall from the global financial crisis.
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...
Insight: earnings season
Insight This time last year, when Australia's big companies opened their books for their annual inspection by shareholders, investors responded in a brutal way.
Hot stock: BHP
Greg Fraser To dig an enormous hole in South Australia, or not to dig? That is the question for the BHP Billiton chief executive Marius Kloppers.
David Potts
Speed trading threatens Terminator event
David Potts 'Dark pools' sounds like something particles whizzing around the Hadron Collider at almost the speed of light might find.
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.
Insight: Super returns
Clancy Yeates Whenever sharemarkets nosedive, the superannuation industry comes out with a familiar refrain.
Firm grasp on reality
Annette Sampson How much of my money should I keep in cash? That's the most common question many financial advisers are hearing as investors struggle in the uncertain economic environment.
Hot stock: Cochlear
Greg Fraser What's new? Hearing-implant company Cochlear hit a discordant note last year when it recalled its Nucleus implants after identifying a fault in some implanted devices.
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.
