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Still the best game in town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2013
... negative inflation-adjusted return - and into equities. And if you're worried about the equity market's overvaluation - 17.6 times trailing P/E for the S&P 500 against its long term average of 16.3 times - you'll have a heart attack when you find that ...

Former Hunter Hall managers gather new FUM in Morphic

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2013
... Morphic Global Opportunities Fund, which invests in assets in the United States, Japan, Philippines and India. "There will be times where we think we can find a lot of good opportunities in a country but we see we are overexposed in that country so we ...

Green, green grass of home

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2013
... for good measure. "The Dow Jones Industrial Average that reclaimed its pre-crisis highs overnight is valued at about 12.5 times expected earnings in the next year. The S&P index of 500 top US shares which now only 1.6 per cent below its pre-crisis high ...

Venezuelan market rally under question

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
... is being eroded by inflation. The annual rate of consumer price rises there was clocked at 22.2% in January - nearly four times higher than what's already considered alarmingly high inflation rate of 6.2% in Brazil and only 3.3% in Mexico. The underlying ...

Funds delivering 12.5% for past 12 months

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2013
... The SelectingSuper survey, conducted by Rainmaker Information, shows super fund returns over the past year are now three times what consumers would earn from cash term deposits after tax. "The dramatic recovery in fund returns on the back of the share ...

Fed sorted easy, now for the ceiling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2013
... downright gloomy that both sides of the US political divide won't allow this to happen, as they have done so many, many times in the past.

Instos on verge of piling into Asian bonds

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2013
... of net creditor nations which have consistently generated current account surpluses, paying investors yields two-to-five times higher than those of developed countries," he said. The majority of Asian countries, Briscoe adds, are experiencing higher ...

Van Eyk warns against New Year financial predictions

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2013
... take this as a sign that predictions should be acted on or consider them any more relevant than predictions made at other times. "There's no inherent reason why the experts should be better at predicting the future now than they are at any other time ...

Accountants jump on digital hub

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2013
... develop as a world leader in accountancy thought leadership and our digital hub will pave the way for truly meaningful, and at times provocative, dialogue on the big issues," said IPA chief executive officer, Andrew Conway. The new resource incorporates ...

All Ords at 5000 overvalued but...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2013
... that, the All Ords' price to earnings ratio indicates that the index is now overvalued - it's currently trading at 17.3 times historical earnings. This compares with a long-term average P/E of 14.7 times. The same way it was when it failed to hold above ...