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S&P 500: 22 corrections in 6 months

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014
... for why the market is about to pop sometime soon. You want numbers with that? The American Association of Individual Investors' (AAII) latest sentiment survey gives us the numbers. Its survey for the week ending 18 June 2014 - that was last week even ...

Beware high correlations: AQR

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... firm also branch out into providing alternatives investments to the Australian financial adviser market. "Individual investors deserve the same right to uncorrelated returns as institutions," said Kabiller. "What leads people not to invest in unfamiliarity ...

Global healing?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014
... the message conveyed by the latest survey of investor sentiment conducted by the American Association of Individual Investors (AAII). For the week ending 21 May 2014, the AAII survey found: Neutral sentiment is above 40% for the fourth consecutive week ...

CFS awarded 'Best Platform Overall'

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
... Australia has a complicated superannuation, taxation, and social security system which is almost impossible for individual investors to navigate without assistance," Elkins said. Colonial First State has identified managed accounts, retirement and SMSFs ...

FEATURE: Managing SMSF growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014
... withA growth. As their number surpasses the half a million mark, Laura Millan looks at the opportunities for individual investors and how SMSFs could contribute to the Australian economy. Of all the appealing features about running your own self-managed ...

New business targets investors' bad habits

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
As the number of individual investors skyrockets with the growth of the self-managed super fund (SMSF) sector, a new business is about to be launched which aims to help investors overcome bad psychological habits. Behavioural Finance Australia (BFA) ...

Flash Boys is 'complete nonsense': CMCRC

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014
... advantage for any one participant. "Sure it costs a bit more money," he said, "but the same story explains why individual investors went to mutual funds in the first place - because it cost too much to trade as an individual." The comments follow reports ...

Bubbling bubble?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014
... also because investor sentiment is in neutral... literally. According to the latest American Association of Individual Investors' (AAII) Sentiment Survey, "Neutral sentiment, expectations that stock prices will stay essentially unchanged, rose 3.2 percentage ...

FEATURE: Insuring against longevity risk

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014
... retirement income has been the allocated pension which is the accumulation phase in reverse. Superannuants remain individual investors, but shift their assets into more defensive portfolios. When you draw down on the last of your allocated pension then ...

ASX managed fund service gets go-ahead

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2014
... registered simple managed investment schemes to sell units via the ASX and not used paper-based transactions. Individual investors or their advisers will be able to buy units in the managed funds through their broker. Already the service has 60 'foundation ...