Insights

China's bulging foreign exchange reserves have become a headache to manage for the central bank. Poor returns on its US reserves should encourage Beijing to chase higher-yield assets in Australia.

UGL's sale of its property services arm looks in doubt, while two of the biggest floats of the year move closer to judgment day.

Tony Abbott's supposed plan to get the states to raise the GST may in fact be a clever ploy to do something quite different.

It's a wonderful bit of PR for Telstra but the telco's renewed interest in rolling out a public Wi-Fi service delivers on multiple levels.

It's been a fairly bumpy ride lately for so-called emerging markets - the markets of 21 countries including such burgeoning nations as Indonesia, Turkey, China, India, Russia, Brazil, Korea, Malaysia and Poland.

Unlisted property trusts are tax-effective … and have good potential for capital growth.

How you can plan ahead for the pension deeming changes announced in the budget.

Investors seeking yield have turned to shares, but keep an eye on the prices.

One US fund manager has found the magic formula for client happiness … transparency.

Local market falls after weakness in iron ore price as investors await consumer sentiment read.

Engineering group receives confidential bids for property services arm DTZ, discussions continue.

Drilling services provider eyes lift in mining industry conditions after difficult year.

The last big utility has turned against renewables, but AGL's argument that new energy market capacity is unviable deserves deeper inspection.

The hammering the Coalition has received in post-budget polling is likely to have vulnerable backbenchers asking their climate-sceptic colleagues why they should help out power companies by taking an axe to the Renewable Energy Target.

Local market falls further as drop in the iron ore price weighs on miners.

Previous stress tests of the eurozone's banking system were far from rigorous, but a spate of capital raisings suggests the banks are getting serious about getting on a sounder financial footing.