Useful Links

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Professional Societies

Financial Planning Association

Institute of Actuaries of Australia

Mortgage and Finance Association of Australia

Australian Government Departments

Australian Bureau of Statistics (Australian economic and social data. Statistical formats with access to publications)

ASIC (Australian corporate regulator)

Australian Taxation Office (Information on all Australian taxation matters)

Australian Taxation Office (Superannuation) (Information on superannuation and taxation)

FIDO (Information about financial products; scams and warnings)

Reserve Bank of Australia (Includes financial statistics eg interest rates, exchange rates, money and credit growth, monetary policies and publications on its operations and research)

Financial Research

International Monetary Fund (Research and news on world financial markets and economy)

Lonsec (Australian research on direct stocks, managed funds, commercial property, infrastructure and agribusiness projects)

Morgan Stanley (The Global Strategy Bulletin contains the latest views of Morgan Stanley strategists and economists worldwide)

Morningstar (research on Australian managed funds)

Standard and Poors (research on Australian and international indices, direct stocks and managed funds)

US Federal Reserve (Information regarding US monetary policy, research and statistics)

Van Eyk (Research on Australian direct equities, managed funds, economic analyses)

Current Markets

Australian equities (Contains market statistics, company research, ASX markets and a search for Australian listed company stock prices)

Bloomberg (Market snapshots, world exchange rates, world indices, commodities, and tools to chart data so that historical trends can be analysed)

International indices (Standard & Poors) (Standard and Poor’s index services cover indices such as the S&P 500 and S&P Europe 350. The reports contain up-to-date commentary and statistics on the indices)

Property – Property Council of Australia ("Cyberstats" section has information and links on Property, Economics, Business, Financial, Tax, Tourism, and Social topics. "Brainsnax" contains some of the latest commercial property articles)

Standard and Poors (research on Australian and international indices, direct stocks and managed funds)

UK equities - FTSE (Index value section covers a whole range of indices such as FTSE All World Index, FTSE EuroTop Indices, FTSE UK Indices)

US equities (American Stock Exchange indices)

Financial calculators

Guide to Calculating Capital Gain (Guide to understanding capital gains tax)

CGT calculator (Calculator for estimating CGT)

Calculator web (Financial & business calculators)

NAB (budgeting, investment, insurance, business, foreign exchange)

News (Calculators for loan repayment, leasing, savings, stamp duty)

Finance rates

Cannex (compare interest rates for loans – home, personal, margin, business, credit cards, bank transaction accounts, etc)

Interest rate (compare interest rates for home or investment loans)

Your mortgage (compare interest rates for home or investment loans; calculators for home loan repayments, stamp duty, etc)