Confidence returns as traders get active and more adventurous, CMC Markets survey says

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Traders get savvy with social media tools – websites, forums and blogs top the list SGX gets thumbs down while Chi-X more warmly received; almost one in four think the

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Consumers start spending again

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CBA Business Spending index In line with anecdotal evidence, consumer spending strengthened in February. The Commonwealth Bank Business Sales Indicator (BSI) rose by 0.5 per cent in trend terms in

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Bucking the trend in active asset management

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Aviva Investors’ delivers outperformance over 1, 3, 5 years While recent research from Standard & Poor’s (S&P)1, announced this week, shows that most active Australian equities managers are failing to

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Construction jobs plunge; Airfares on rise

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Quarterly Labour force data; Over the three months to February, employment across Australia grew by just 0.1 per cent or 16,200 – marking the slowest pace of jobs growth in

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Investment Briefing March 2011: Japan

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When catastrophe strikes somewhere in the world and many lives are lost, and the human suffering is unbearable for all involved, questions about the economic cost of the disaster and

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Investor Signposts: Week Beginning March 20 2011

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The big picture If you wanted to get a good textbook example of a ‘fear-driven’ event it is the so-called Japanese nuclear crisis. It started with one of the biggest

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RaboDirect 5 year term deposit rate highest in market at 7.15% p.a.

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1 year RaboDirect TD rate already market-leading RaboDirect, the online savings and investments bank, has again turned up the heat on the term deposit market, this week announcing a market-leading

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More than lowest brokerage: CMC Markets Stockbroking wins prominent awards from Investment Trends

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CMC Markets, the leading independent financial services provider, has been awarded ‘Highest overall client satisfaction’, ‘Best website functionality’, ‘Best customer service’, and ‘Best charting’ in the Investment Trends Dec 2010

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Russell captures Australian market value premium with new ETF

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Russell Australian Value ETF is the first style-based ETF in Australia Based around new Russell Australia High Value Index Designed with specific applications for institutional investors Russell Investments is aiming

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Credit shines and bond yields to head upwards, says INGIM

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Credit is expected to shine over the coming quarter while Australian bonds will continue to outperform their global counterparts, according to the latest fixed income outlook from ING Investment Management

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