www.afr.com useful for Australian finance news and breaking stories www.ato.gov several sub-sites (eg, covering superannuation) with a wealth of tax information from an authoritative source www.bloomberg.com & www.bloomberg.com/au top international and domestic market sites, with stock commentary under breaking news and free charting capacity www.economist.com the world’s best newspaper by a very large margin. Lots available free, but if you subscribe to the printed edition, you can see everything – and be up-to-date, eg you can login on Friday in Australia and see the new weekly edition that you will not see in hard copy until Monday. Also see articles that do not go into the printed edition and a massive archive www.ft.com home page of the Financial Times in London. Has recently imposed subscription options and access now subject to restrictions, but still considerable information available for free. Subscription option for those with time to read it. This site has links to several other FT sites, with quality of information you would expect

www.money.cnn.com great for global markets, with masses of data on US stocks and some controversial commentary www.moneymanagement.com free and contains ASSIRT research tables of managed fund performance www.securites.edu Securities Institute of Australia, with mainly information on their courses, which private investor would benefit from www.taxinstitute.com.au The Taxation Institute of Australia – requires membership for full benefit, as login required www.wsj.com & www.barrons.com The Wall Street Journal is one of many US papers that give free access to lots of news. Better to subscribe and get full access to the WSJ and to Barron’s – the latter is the pre-eminent US investor magazine, and contains serious articles upon market conditions, stocks/sectors and developments, with a US bias admittedly