Housing market activity may have taken a slide but townhouses are becoming a popular choice.  

Soaring house prices in Sydney and Melbourne are leaving more first homebuyers in those cities on the sidelines.

What do new RBA governor Philip Lowe and US presidential candidate Donald Trump have in common?

If your superannuation is mostly invested in shares, and most funds are, then you are most likely losing money over the last 7 weeks.

Investors dumped high-yield defensive stocks this week and punished a spate of companies that delivered disappointing earnings updates, delivering the sharemarket its largest weekly drop since June.

Just one in 10 investors believe Sydney is the best place to buy in Australia, a new survey shows. 

The legislated objective of the $2 trillion superannuation system should not include references to achieving "comfort" or "adequacy" because it would open the way to constant political interference, David Murray says.

The first sign of real market volatility, which started in January and tested many investors with its order to "sell everything", turned out to be a short, sharp affair that finished in the middle of February.

Superannuation funds could be forced to disclose exactly what is in at least 95 per cent of their portfolio holdings, a big jump from the current average of less than 17 per cent.