Insights

Rival towers in Melbourne and the Gold coast promise to take people as close to heaven as an investor ever gets, but are they good value? Mark Armstrong and Fiona Marsden compared the two and chose Melbourne's Eureka Tower as a better investment.

Richard Kovacs' GoldLink fund offers a fully franked dividend yield of 10% and the managing director has more than $500,000 of his own money invested in the product. In today's video interview, Kovacs tells associate editor Michael Pascoe how this absolute return fund works.

The 'hybrid' market is the nearest thing to a bond market for most Australian retail investors. With predictable income, franked divideds and the potential for capital appreciation, hybrids are increasingly popular - but how does it all work? Harry Liem and Dragana Timotijevic of Mercer Investment Consulting unveil the mysteries.

By the time it is published, information on the property market is well out of date. But that is not the only problem for investors as Terry Carroll reports.

Volatile stockmarkets are a boon for alternative investments writes associate editor, Michael Pascoe, who interviews Richard Kovacs of GoldLink on video. Kovacs manages a Sydney-based absolute return fund that invests in the world gold market.

The market's rough patch this week merely took it back to its level of three weeks ago. No cause for alarm. In fact, says Charlie Aitken, it has left some stocks, particularly category killer retailers, looking more attractive.

A transcript of associate editor Michael Pascoe's interview on Monday with Ian Smith of Lazard Asset Management. Smith is paving the way for Australian investors in overseas infrastructure markets.

As more than half a million property investors brace for land tax increases in New South Wales - the reform of the land valuation system has implications for property prices across Australia, writes property editor Mark Armstrong.

High petrol prices and soaring gas prices are a bonanza to producers, but are inflicting real pain on most sections of the United States economy writes Richard Campbell.

Investors can tap the boom indirectly, through Australian companies doing business there, or through direct investments in Chinese companies. Paul Waide tells how.

Star hedge fund managers will deliver better absolute returns year in and year out. Finding the right star to hitch yourself to requires some homework. David Kent, the executive chairman of Everest Capital, offers a primer.

Ian Smith of Lazard Asset Management is paving the way for Australian investors in overseas infrastructure markets. As opportunities become scarcer at home, Lazard's new fund answers a growing demand for wider options writes associate editor, Michael Pascoe. On video Smith explains why the new fund could be the shape of things to come.

If management talent is the mark of a successful bank investment, then ANZ's John McFarlane and his team at ANZ are the winners says Ian Rogers, as he rates the management teams of Australia's big four banks.

Full transcript of Michael Pascoe's video interview with Carol Austin, broadcast in Eureka Report on Wednesday.

Even the most bullish investors are getting a little hot under the collar as the stockmarket races to new records, but Charlie Aitken knows what to do.

A very strong improvement in net profit at upmarket retailer David Jones has confirmed chief executive Mark McInnes as the market's most successful retailer. He tells consumer trends expert Ross Honeywill its time retail stocks were reconsidered by investors.