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Reflections on 2014 and what 2015 may bring, biggest puzzle in asset allocation, SMSFs ability to fund comfortable retirement, high yield credit myths, poll results, the SGH20 fund.
FTAs with Asia, mFunds, Howard Marks on oil, bargaining lessons, long term investing and aged care facility costs.
The power of mean reversion, interview with Rob Arnott, global investing, residential property, profit retention and thematic investing.
Lessons from October 2014, disruptions to super, FoFA timeline and best interest duty, the 1 in 100 year event and currency hedging.
Equity returns compared, retirement income planning, longevity risk, A-REITs, long-term goals, and Investors Mutual's Aust Share Fund.
QE policy effects, high global debt levels, Australia's slow stockmarket recovery, divesting from fossil fuels, company culture and impact investing.
Nobel laureate Robert Merton on better superannuation outcomes, retirement communities, SMSF value chain, investment strategies, banks and the FSI.
How the investment management profession became an industry.
Special edition to mark the 100 Women of Influence Awards.
Nick Sherry on complex super, LICs, currency winners, bank deposit guarantee, and bond markets.
Changes in Asia, granny flats, equities in retirement, investing in car spaces and what discretionary spending tells us.
Growing wealth, megatrends, binding death nominations, hedge fund seizes ship, tailoring share portfolios and our new Fund Performance Snapshot.
Interview with AUSCOAL's CIO, wills and super, peer-to-peer lending, company excuses, infrastructure debt and Pension Loans Scheme.
Market timing and asset allocation, infrastructure securities, a better retirement world, finding cheap stocks, ATO on divorce assets and tax reality.
Retirement myths, bond funds, lump sum bias, company growth, pitfalls of managed funds, growing old and spending less?
How to identify good companies, Chile's super fund auctions, money managing types, from BRICs to blocs, super benefits for death and injury.
Watch for options in LICs, insurance in super, trend-following funds, inflation and unemployment policies, FSI for SMSFs, different revenue growth.
Home equity release, liquidity in super, ways to fund retirement, secular stagnation and super fund missions.
Fee debate continues, worst and best fund ever, real estate strategies, child savings, digging deeper for facts, and the long run.
Free booklet from William J Bernstein, look beyond the ASX leaders, follow winners and losers, advice fees, external costs, SMSFs and ATO powers.
Reader Survey results, SMSF gearing, knowing the unknown, super's bring-forward rule, underperforming small caps and Piketty critiqued.
Portfolios are never 'set', SMSFs and borrowing, liquidity obsession, saving into super and pension changes.
Finance's poor public image, the perils of hybrids, high yield investments, shares vs bonds after default, and emerging market definitions.
Understand performance stats, diversification matches future needs, bond default winners and losers, biases of goalkeepers, re-contribution strategy.
Cuffelinks Reader Survey.
Meeting aged care costs, Australia's default decisions, diversification during GFC, India's prospects and the AQR seminar.
Defined benefit schemes, diversification's past, Australia's default, value for money and bank lending practices.
Fraudulent schemes, Elroy Dimson, China's growth, identifying benchmark risk, and age-based decisions.
Markowitz on investing, SMSF checklist, Brazil, 'set and forget' strategies and pension changes.
Life's uncertainties, Ian Macfarlane Q&A, outcome engines, stock market returns and super's role in our tax system.
Ian Macfarlane Q&A, government debt, analysing equity markets, retirement adequacy and changes to super.
Budgets and fiscal discipline, risk and ambiguity, future cycles, SMSF receipts and a bit of investment poetry.
Sources of retirement income, gift policies, M&A activity, PAFs and inflation linked investing.
Retirement income forecasts, the new super tax, the complexities of pension reform and Q&A comparing annuities and indexed bonds
Anzac Day reading: what are your investing principles and why do most investors underperform?
Demographics and economic growth, don't overlook risk in portfolios, bonds and inflation risk and further pension reform.
Longevity and post-retirement products, Senator Sinodinos and directorships, Aussie equities performance and credit reporting for the people.
Phil Ruthven makes the case for higher taxes, forecasting markets, disability advice, residency rules for SMSFs and debt agreements
Making the most of super caps, the curse of liquidity, the decline of Aussie producers, LICs vs ETFs and the Financial System Inquiry.
Financial advice fees, bank hybrid market changes, pension reform, retirement spending and avoiding the losers.
Achieving retirement goals, the effects of sequencing, finding true visionaries, better tools needed for SMSFs, US and UK market recoveries.
Ongoing systemic risk, SMSF property potholes, finding fixed interest yield, Buffett's 2013 letter, taking Danish lessons.
Noel Whittaker's rules for health and wealth, Hamish Douglass on US growth, stock market all-time highs, value in old & tired, bank transfer pricing.
How long will you live? Age pension reform, changes to the aged care system, investing for reinvestment rates and more SMSF myths.
Tax efficiency in public super funds, global liquidity, 'retail' deposits in super, the big super myths, and go for quality companies.
Anniversary edition. Growth and market returns, retirement incomes, the F-words of finance, limited recourse borrowings, margin lending and mFunds.
ASX's managed fund service, automatic investing, 2013 review of global markets, UBS bond index explained & innovations in portfolio management.
Welcome back. Introduction to the Market Monitor, save more and stop procrastinating, ten commandments of small business and shared home equity.