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Sharp reduction in inheritance wealth despite rise in per capita income: AMP

... resulted from people living longer, having fewer children to divide the wealth between and also from the housing and stock market booms of the 1980s and 1990s. "Elderly people no longer feel obliged to leave their children a large inheritance with many ...

Afternoon market wrap: All Ordinaries edge higher

... across the board. Of the major stocks, Qantas shares dipped $0.03 to $3.27 in an otherwise uneventful day in the stock market. The latest GDP figures reveal that Australia's economy is more or less on track to experience a better year of growth in 2004 ...

Global hedge funds return 2.6% in April: Van

... April, its strongest month since January, Van Hedge Fund Advisors have announced. Van said that April's broad-based stock market rally was certainly a key contributor to hedge funds' success during the month, as hedge funds tend to invest in stocks more ...

Van Global Hedge Fund Index up 0.9% in first quarter

Hedge funds have returned 0.9% net for the first quarter of 2003, beating all the major stock market indices, according to data released by the Van Global Hedge Fund Index. The returns compare with the falls on the S&P 500 (down -3.1%) and the Dow Jones ...

Morning market wrap: War takes centre stage

... market lost much of what it had gained in the previous two weeks, which had recorded dramatic gains. The New York stock market is at a break even point for the year as market sentiment has drifted from euphoria to a current state of uncertainty as the ...

Investment Analysis: The small cap explosion

... nominal terms. Dr Pereira identified the performance of six categories of stocks over the 75 year period in the US stock market which confirmed the overwhelmingly higher returns achieved by small capitalisation value stocks, while small capitalisation ...

Super fund returns at lowest since 1987: InTech

... Fernando Australia's growth oriented superannuation funds have recorded their worst 12-month returns since the 1987 stock market crash, according to research house InTech's latest research. The dismal results come in the wake of another poor month for ...

Costello cautions supers against overseas equity investments

John Fernando Federal Treasurer Peter Costello today said that he believed that it was "unwise" for superannuation funds to be investing large sums in overseas stocks, citing dramatic losses in global equity prices over the past few years. Speaking ...

Property the best investment vehicle: Atchison Consultants ^ development.

^ DEVELOPMENT.  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2003
... volatility and tax effectiveness. Importantly, investors need to be aware that direct property returns often exceed stock market returns over the long term and with less risk." The five leading asset classes by annualised returns based on index levels ...