Sharemarket
Nervous investors wonder where to put money now
Record low interest rates, term deposits paying a pittance, property price coming off the boil and volatile sharemarkets have investors scratching their heads.
- by John Collett
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Q&A
Pension
Setting up superannuation for children
Personal finance expert George Cochrane answers your questions.
- by George Cochrane
Perpetual Limited
Cost cuts define a month of company confessions
When growth is hard to find companies have looked to cut expenses to maintain profits but market watcher warn that can't go on forever.
- by Sarah turner
BHP Billiton
The hits and misses of corporate confession season
From mauled miners to booming broadcasters, wretched retailers to faltering finance, this was an earnings season of truly mixed messages.
- by Clancy Yeates, Patrick Hatch, Carolyn Cummins, Cole Latimer, Darren Gray & Jennifer Duke
World
President Xi sends warning to global investors: Chinese billionaires are vulnerable
President Xi Jinping's government has fired another warning shot at global dealmakers doing business with Chinese billionaires: Not even the most well-connected tycoons are safe.
- by Keith Zhai and Alfred Cang
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Sharemarket
8@eight: ASX to open lower as Trump rattles markets
What happened overnight and what's ahead for the ASX.
- by Chris Weston
Donald Trump
Wall Street sinks as Trump's tariff 'bombshell' raises spectre of trade wars
President Donald Trump sends Wall Street tumbling as he imposes import tariffs on steel and aluminum, adding fears of a tit-for-tat trade war.
- by Sruthi Shankar and Caroline Valetkevitch
Analysis
Sharemarket
Spotify's symbolic (non) IPO - and why it's no Netflix for music
Spotify isn't disrupting the music industry. It actually helped save it.
- by John McDuling
Analysis
Analysis
Tax is not the enemy of the investor, inertia is
The way to achieve high net worth is to buy shares during your working life and hold on to them until retirement.
- by Noel Whittaker
Bill Gates
'A certainty': Bill Gates says we will face another GFC in the near future
Bill Gates says we will soon face another financial crisis.
- by Melia Robinson
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Sharemarket
8@eight: ASX set to face headwinds
What happened overnight and what's ahead for the ASX.
- by Chris Weston