Ignore the confusion in global markets to find outstanding opportunities

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One could be excused for feeling that recent global equity market activity is overly confusing. The bipolar combination of market euphoria today, and despair tomorrow, repeats itself over and over.

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Fund Credit Quality Rating On Perennial Cash Enhanced Fund Withdrawn

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Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced today that it has withdrawn its ‘AAf’ fund credit quality rating on the Perennial Cash Enhanced Fund. The rating has been withdrawn at the

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Income strategies expected to surge as dividends improve

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Buybacks returning as era of cautious balance sheets ends Income-based strategies are likely to become more appealing to investors as companies restore their dividends and come under increasing pressure to

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Powerhouse mining sector

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Quarterly Labour force data; RBA Speech; Imports In percentage terms, employment in the mining sector expanded rapidly over the past year. In the year to August, mining sector employment grew

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Compare the Pair

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Whilst our (in my opinion) overly politically-correct industry leaders eschew the benefits of fees over “ugly” commissions let’s put an investment manager’s hat on and look at the business of

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CMC Markets and optionsXpress Australia partner for CFDs and share trading

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Superior education offering combined with cutting edge trading platform provides innovative investment solution CMC Markets and optionsXpress Australia, a leading online derivatives trading firm, today announced a new partnership for

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Consumers display caution

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Dwelling starts at six-year Consumer sentiment; New car sales; Dwelling starts The Westpac/Melbourne Institute index of consumer confidence eased in the latest month. The index fell by 5.0 per cent

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Russell adds three directors to global alternatives team

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Expansion continues with the appointment of industry experts in hedge funds, private equity and operational due diligence. As part of ongoing efforts to deepen its global capabilities and resources in

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INGIM further strengthens wholesale capabilities with new appointments

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Key distribution hire in northern region Push into adviser and platform sector continues ING Investment Management (INGIM) Australia has continued to expand its push into the wholesale intermediary market with

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ASIC reaches sixth Westpoint settlement

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ASIC has reached an agreement to settle its actions against Barzen Pty Ltd (formerly Dukes Financial Services Pty Ltd) and Mr Joseph Dukes (collectively ‘Dukes’), for $1 million. This settlement

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