Saxo Capital Markets is a subsidiary of the Danish Saxo Bank, which was founded in 1992. In Australia its operations are regulated by ASIC as [...]

Maybe you’ve just received your annual tax refund, or you’re planning to have a frugal Christmas and stash away some of the cash you’d usually [...]

In 2019, the ASX S&P200, {ASX chart from TradingEconomics.com] the market measure based on the top two hundred company share prices listed on the Australian [...]

The rise of online share trading platforms has democratised trading by making it more accessible to “regular” people. You don’t need to visit and hire [...]

When you think about borrowing money in order to invest it, the first thing you’ll probably imagine is an investment home loan. You borrow a [...]

Which banks are paying compensation to investors? Banks and financial institutions will pay about one billion dollars in total compensation to investors and customers for [...]

If you’ve suddenly got a few grand to invest, then you might be wondering what is the best way to make it work for you. [...]

By far the most common way to buy and sell shares in Australia is on its share market, using either a broker or a stockbroking [...]

Commonwealth Bank’s online brokerage, CommSec, has launched a new mobile phone app called CommSec Pocket. CommSec Pocket is aimed at savers who perhaps have not [...]

You have heard of shares, property, term deposits and savings accounts but are you on top of bonds as an investment vehicle? Bonds are often [...]

The golden rule of investing is that everyone should have a diversified mix of investments and not ‘put all their eggs in one basket.’ Traditionally [...]

You might like trading in shares, comparing returns on managed funds, looking at interest rates on term deposits and researching property deals yourself. You love [...]

The Australian Securities & Investments Commission has launched "Pie in the Sky" awards for the scams of the year. The top prize for 2002 goes [...]

A Westpac financial adviser, Robert Tindall, provided negligent and misleading advice to Westpac Sunshine Coast customers Mark and Loretta Jamieson who did not understand their [...]

A group of investors in the failed Westpoint Group stand to receive over $1.39 million in compensation in a settlement reached by ASIC against Queensland [...]

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has rapped Westpac over the knuckles for publishing a guide to geared equity investment titled: "Stress-free Strategies to Accelerate [...]

National Australia Bank is continuing to win market share in key lending and deposit areas from its big bank competitors. NAB increased its total lending [...]

HSBC Bank Australia has launched a 24-hour foreign exchange trading service with live pricing. The service, Get Rate, is for retail and small-business customers. HSBC [...]

Residential investment opportunities are swelling in Brisbane as clearance rates drop well below other capital cities this weekend, says leading accounting firm Chan & Naylor. [...]

Cash savings products became very popular during the global financial crisis years of 2008 and 2009. SMSF investors led the market in adopting online savings [...]

ANZ has emerged as the major bank most in favour with banking sector analysts after the latest round of interim and quarterly reports. Among the [...]

Bendigo and Adelaide Bank filed legal claims against a select group of investors in the tax-effective forestry schemes managed by Great Southern. Only three investors [...]

Investors with self-managed superannuation funds have increased their allocation to equities from 32 per cent in December 2008 to 42 per cent in December 2009 [...]

Many investors who invested directly into a retail managed investment fund, or even those who have been advised to put their money into a retail [...]

Heritage Building Society today announced the launch of an ASX listed subordinated debt transaction, to raise approximately $30 million, with the ability to raise more [...]

National Australia Bank is coming under increasing criticism from small shareholders over its institutional share placements and Share Purchase Plans. Some prominent media identities have [...]

Young ‘generation Y’ investors have unrealistic expectations about the level of returns they can expect and don’t know how to invest to meet their high [...]

League tables released by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority highlighting the poor performance of major superannuation funds are yet another reminder to investors of the [...]

Police are still trying to track down investors who joined up to an alleged conman’s investment scheme. 218 investors have so far been identified and [...]

Not-for-profit superannuation funds have outperformed retail master trust funds by more than 2.3 per cent a year for the past 10 years, according to the [...]

Around 50 per cent of all deposits are covered by guarantees announced by the Australian government in October 2008. The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority and [...]

Superannuation investors get better returns when they invest in low cost passively managed index funds than in actively managed funds according to new research by [...]

Self-managed funds grew in number and asset value over the year to June 2008, a testament to the determination of the do-it-yourself set. APRA recorded [...]

The government guarantee on deposits and do it yourself attitude are driving renewed interest in self managed super. Good investment returns by big super funds [...]

The wealth management industry does not meet best practice benchmarks in any area of its operations, it does not meet the needs of the average [...]

Retail mastertrusts have outperformed industry superannuation funds within the growth investment option for the first time since mid 2008. The commercial funds outperformed the not-for-profits [...]

InfoChoice would like your help in judging the upcoming AFR Smart Investor Awards. We want to know how you rank the most important factors based [...]

A good performing super fund and smart investment choices can make an average worker into millionaire, while keeping super in the worst fund could mean [...]

Bendigo and Adelaide Bank's big retail shareholder base gave the bank a vote of confidence by buying $80 million of shares in the bank's capital [...]

Westpac is aiming to lose no St George customers as its integration team begins the work of merging the two banks. Westpac chief transformation officer [...]

Investors continued to choose bank deposits in October over shares and other investment options. More than $11 billion was deposited in banks, credit unions and [...]

Share market investors are fleeing plummeting markets and looking for the safety of bank deposit products. The amount of money on deposit in banks has [...]

Investors in City Pacific Mortgage Fund will be made to wait up to a further 180 days for any redemption request, dragging out the waiting [...]

Interventions by the US Federal Reserve intended to boost the economy are being increasingly seen by investors as signs of desperation and only serving to [...]

Cranky investors in troubled Allco Finance Group have been taking out their frustrations on the wrong company. Allco's share price has lost more than $6 [...]

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission said yesterday that 44 per cent of consumers can't read well enough to understand investment disclosures and only 20 [...]

Two years after the collapse of the Westpoint group investors are still waiting to see any of their cash. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission [...]

The Australian share market has fallen 16 per cent over the last two and a half months but some say there are now good deals [...]

While the Australian share market has posted double-digit returns for each of the past four years, the outlook for 2008 is uncertain. Valuations currently forecast [...]

The funds management industry in Australia is expanding at a rapid rate, growing from 50 per cent of GDP in 1990 to $1.7 trillion or [...]

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has moved to protect consumers by introducing new rules for issuers of unlisted debentures. As debts from losses on [...]

Investors hammered ANZ's share price following the bank's profit announcement yesterday despite reporting a 13.3 per cent rise in annual profit to a record of [...]

During the worst of the sharemarket correction in August, calls on margin loans hit their highest point in six years. Most were able to make [...]

The economy grew by 4.3 per cent in the year to June, and was up by 0.9 per cent in the quarter, placing further pressure [...]

Low doc home loans now make up 10 per cent of all mortgage approvals, up from just 0.5 per cent in 2000. Low doc loans [...]

A plan has been suggested which would allow investors to buy water and dedicate it to environmental use in a bid to obtain private support [...]

Becton Property Group has offered Fincorp investors 50 cents in the dollar on their original investments as well as an opportunity to reinvest their proceeds [...]

The continued sell off in US equities markets has local analysts tipping a further sell off in the Australian markets. The Dow Jones was off [...]

Investing of the $51 billion Future Fund is set to begin at the end of this financial year, irrespective of concerns the fund would be [...]

Up to 7000 investors are facing the prospect of losing a combined $330 million as another high-risk property lender collapses. McGrath Nicol were yesterday appointed [...]

Yesterday the All Ordinaries index rose 104.5 points to 5831.8 points, as investors followed a positive session on Wall Street and targeted financial stocks sold [...]

The latest surge in the share price of Macquarie Bank will have the cynics wondering whether the success of the "Macquarie model" is too good [...]

The chances of further interest rate rises this year remain finely balanced at the moment but the Reserve Bank is likely to leave rates on [...]

One third of staff working at Commonwealth Bank fear losing their job under the bank’s "Which new bank" restructuring program, a survey conducted by the [...]

When judging performance, investors often look at the wrong number, since many published comparisons of investment performance do not take into account tax. For example, [...]

News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch said yesterday he had no choice but to move the group's domicile to the US to increase its share value. [...]

The level of fees and charges remains investors' biggest gripe with their managed investments, a survery has found. One third of unhappy investors listed fees [...]

Share buybacks are likely to become more complex and less attractive to investors after the ATO's final determination on the assessment of the market value [...]

Telstra has announced it will focus on its existing local businesses and lift payments to shareholders, returning $1.5 billion to shareholders every year for the [...]

A Macquarie Bank study shows that most people are unable to put aside their emotions when making investment decisions. They're often over-optimistic when making investments, [...]

Developers and analysts have welcomed the slowdown in property investment loans saying that further falls are likely. Private developer Kevin Seymour said the decrease in [...]

With Melbourne's inner-city apartment market facing massive oversupply, many investors are seeking legal loopholes to avoid settling on off-the-plan purchases. According to law firm Jerrard [...]

Thousands of property investors may not qualify for capital gains and negative gearing tax concessions if their investments were made with the objective of quick [...]

Most investors do not rely on prospectuses for investment decisions and regard them as little more than application tools or legal documents, a study by [...]

Fund managers enjoyed the best results for three years in the September quarter with the average return at 2.9 per cent. For the same quarter [...]

The Australian Council of Super Investors claims that shareholder rights are being weakened by the legal structure used by dual-listed companies, such as BHP Billiton, [...]

Small investors' attachment to companies such as AMP and Qantas has cost them money in 2003. CommSec's Mums and Dads index has risen only 12.8 [...]

If you've signed up to buy an investment property off the plan, paid a 10 per cent deposit and don't expect to worry about finance [...]

It's a renters' market across Australia with too many properties available to let and not enough tenants. An oversupply of rental properties, particularly in Sydney [...]

Nielsen/NetRatings' Online Broking Index survey shows there's been a 20 per cent rise in online broking activity in the last six months. The share trading [...]

Small investors may be able to buy shares in Australia's top-selling meat pie brand, Four'n Twenty, as a result of plans by new owner Patties [...]

The Federal Government is expected to water down laws protecting investors from getting bad advice from financial planners and stockbrokers. The Financial Services Reform Act [...]

David Tweed is now targeting shareholders in Victorian fertiliser co-operative Pivot, expected to list on the ASX in July. Tweed is offering Pivot's shareholders $3 [...]

Wealthy professionals are now moving into so-called "protected" equity investments after having made a killing in the property market. Macquarie Bank says the majority of [...]

Financial planner RetireInvest has told the Australian Securities & Investments Commission it will tighten up its compliance procedures and improve supervision of advisers following a [...]

Delegates to a CEDA economic outlook conference being held in Melbourne have been told that investors face more bad news with both international and domestic [...]

The governor of the Reserve Bank says rental housing investors are facing "very big losses" as the housing market cools. This group is now contributing [...]

Commonwealth Bank has moved to quell investor concerns about recent management changes and fears about its capital strength. Chairman John Ralph responded to an ASX [...]

Research by the Australian Securities & Investments Commission indicates that the financial planning industry could be losing the confidence of customers, due to its emphasis [...]

Australians are still investing overseas despite the global sharemarket rout, according to the latest figures from Assirt. International shares remain the most favoured destination for [...]

The Australian Stock Exchange recorded its busiest October ever last month, despite terrorist attacks and a volatile US market. The average daily trade total in [...]

The Federal Court has ruled that Asgard Capital Management must cover an investor's $245,000 loss. The court ruled that the superannuation provider breached the law [...]

An innovative scheme which would allow private business owners to sell parts of their companies to investors, who then become partners, has been launched by [...]

AMP's acting CEO Andrew Mohl restored some much-needed market confidence yesterday by ruling out any immediate need for a capital injection to aid its UK [...]

A Perth schoolteacher has had her investment in a failed cattle scheme allowed as a tax deduction, in a decision which could affect up to [...]

Investors who are defrauded, fall prey to thieves or are victims of bad advice may in future be able to apply for compensation for financial [...]

TD Waterhouse conducted a survey of 200 investors in August and found that only 17 per cent believed that the Australian economy has improved over [...]

St George will increase its interest in Bourse Data with the sale of Quicktrade and ASSIRT. This week Bourse Data shareholders approved a proposal allowing [...]

A report released by www.consult.com.au Pty Ltd last week revealed large variations in the time it took online brokers to process trades. The largest variation [...]

While the NASDAQ was swinging wildly during February and March, trading volumes via online brokers reached new records on each of the following days. Each [...]