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High risk investors lose appetite for risk

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2014
... of cash. Of those who do plan to reallocate their cash to other asset classes, one in three favoured direct Australian shares, while one in four favoured residential property. According to CoreData principal Andrew Inwood, "It's easy to see why cash ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2014
Australian shares are higher due to strong gains by the big four banks, positive offshore leads and higher commodity prices. IG market strategist Evan Lucas said he thought there was relatively strong momentum for quality. "There is a nice balance in ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2014
... slightly weaker after the loss of manufacturing jobs and mixed earnings reports impacted investor confidence. Australian shares did not follow strong leads from Wall Street as investors took their cues from local events, Commsec economist Savanth Sebastian ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014
Australian shares are weaker, following surprisingly weak Chinese manufacturing data. The HSBC purchasing managers' index on Thursday showed Chinese manufacturing activity fell to a six-month low in January, with a reading of 49.6, down from December's ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2014
Australian shares are weaker as lower-than-expected production volumes from global mining giant BHP Billiton weigh down the overall market. BHP, the second largest company on the Australian share market, announced iron ore production of 48.9 million ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2014
Australian shares have fallen as China's economic growth numbers continue to weigh on the market. With US markets closed for the Martin Luther King Jr public holiday, investors are taking their cues from Chinese gross domestic product (GDP) data, Invast ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2014
Australian shares are weaker as a mixed lead out of Wall Street dents the big banks. The mining giants, BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, however, are firmer despite concerns China's economy may be experiencing its slowest annual growth in 14 years. The major ...

Realindex outperforms as it passes five-year milestone

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2014
... Bank-owned smart beta specialist marked its fifth anniversary last month. During that time, its four original funds - Australian Shares, Australian Small Companies, Global Shares and Global Shares Hedged - have outperformed their equivalent market-cap ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2014
Australian shares have bounced back from Tuesday's losses, thanks to a positive lead from Wall Street. The market is more than three-quarters of a per cent higher, which partly offsets the previous session's 1.5 per cent slide. Morgans senior private ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2013
Australian shares are marginally weaker as a lacklustre lead from Wall Street weighs down the big miners and some banking stocks. A dip on US markets saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the the broad-based S&P 500 both shed about a third of a per ...