Insights

Poor land values and the prospect of much more land still to be released make Melbourne’s Docklands a risky proposition for most investors, even after a drop in prices, says Mark Armstrong.

Industrial cyclicals - such as engineering stocks - have yet to join the bull market, but they might be the next cab off the rank says Charlie Aitken

You can start a DIY fund for a lot less than the finance industry would have you believe, says Barbara Smith

Influential JP Morgan banking analyst Brian Johnson is talking down a quarter of the Australian stock market - the banks he knows so well. It's a call that has major implications for all investors.

China's Top 100 Companies

Too big! Too fast! It cant last! Or can it? Nothing looks capable of stopping China’s economic surge in the next 20 years — and Australia will be one of the big winners from the giant’s awakening, writes Patrick O'Leary.

Rupert Murdoch's audacious sweep into internet stocks has fired up a fresh generation of investors in the online economy, writes Ross Honeywill.

The New South Wales market is set to get a boost from Premier Iemma as the rest of the nation faces a slow weekend, writes Mark Armstrong.

A correction is looming if the results season comes up short - Only the resources sector will survive a rout says Charlie Aitken.

Stockmarket turbulence when companies are under takeover attack presents opportunities. Try to pick a quality target and buy before the predator reveals its play, says James Kirby

Better times will trigger a new round of inflation, but the real worry is faltering productivity rates made worse by attempted industrial relations reforms, writes John Edwards.

Economists have got it wrong, commodity prices will rise further, says Charlie Aitken.

Inflation has been effectively controlled in Australia, but in the US new pressures are growing from China.

In economics nothing is ever quite as it seems, especially in this year's forecasts. All the official forecasts are based on nothing going wrong, but Economics Editor Patrick O'Leary, perhaps appropriately, examines the prospects for Murphy's Law to operate.

Do you run your own self-managed super fund? Get your act together early this year and you could be making money rather than filling our forms.

The property boom is over - we know that much. We also know it's not a hard landing... yet, or at least not everywhere. The trouble is that there is not one property market. Some landings around Australia are hard; some are soft; some haven't had a landing at all. Eureka Reports' Property Editor Mark Armstrong surveys the state of Australia's various property markets.