What’s next for commodities?

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Growing concern about the strength of global demand recently prompted big falls in the price of many commodities. How much have commodities dropped? It depends. Take silver, which has been

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CommSec Investor Signposts: Week Beginning May 22 2011

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Upcoming economic and financial market events   The big picture Is the petrol price high? It depends on your stand-point, especially given the fact that prices are quite volatile, making

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Asia’s dividend ‘sweetspot’ continues to yield

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Below is a market comment from Jason Pidcock, head of the Asian Equities desk at Newton, part of BNY Mellon Asset Management, on the outlook for equity income investing in

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Multiport SMSF Investment Patterns Survey March 2011

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To get a closer insight into where SMSF trustees invest, Multiport regularly undertakes an analysis of our SMSF’s investments to look at the up to date asset allocation and investment

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Zenith: alternative research products in high demand

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Twelve months ago Zenith Investment Partners Pty Ltd (Zenith) acknowledged the need to boost its market research offering with the establishment of the Alternatives Research division to be headed by accomplished investment

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Legg Mason urges investors to rethink retirement portfolios

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Real assets can be useful tool to produce stable income Legg Mason launches funds to fill gap for retiree tailored products x A new paper released by Legg Mason today

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Strategy Monthly: Euro confusion

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Equities appear to have recovered their poise after the four-week correction from mid February to the lows around the time of the terrible events in Japan mid March. Markets have

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CommSec Economic Insights: Fruit prices plunge; Manufacturing shrinks; $A soars

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Weekly petrol prices; TD Securities monthly inflation gauge Inflationary pressures ease. The TD Securities-Melbourne Institute monthly inflation gauge rose by 0.3 per cent in April or 3.6 per cent over the

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Rating On Vanguard Australian Shares High Yield Fund Unaffected By Benchmark Change

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Standard & Poor’s Fund Services today announced that its rating on the Vanguard Australian Shares High Yield fund is unaffected by changes made by the manager, Vanguard Investments Australia Ltd. x Effective

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Threadneedle Investment Strategy Update April 2011

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Risk assets have absorbed an awful lot of bad news over the past month and their resilience can be ascribed partly to the attractive valuations that have long underpinned our

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