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Better second half

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
... that it's making investors' mouths water. Seems like it, the S&P 500 is currently trading at a price-earnings ratio of 12.8 times versus its long-term average of around 14 times. Also, the S&P 500's earnings yield at current levels is around 7 per cent. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... enthusiasm did not translate into the fall on the IPO price that analysts had been expecting, citing expensive valuations of 23 times forecast 2011 earnings. Shanghai closed 2.16 per cent higher, a fifth straight rise, as bargain hunters snapped up shares ...

Big Benny and little Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011
... the moment (the final nail in the coffin perhaps?) As Harvard University Professor Marin Feldstein writes in the Financial Times, "If Greece were the only insolvent European country, it would be best if its default occurred now...But Greece is not alone ...

Perpetual transitions team around Sevior

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
... Sevior's return next year. "We are looking at options for John [Sevior] on his return from leave. His role has changed many times over the years he has been at Perpetual and its not a fait accomplis that he would come back to his exact same role," said ...

Policy war erupts over super clearing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
... the Government immediately countered that the Coalition's plan to have the ATO itself process the payments would cost four times as much for about $64 million per year. "Over 99 per cent of Australian businesses have rejected Labor's failed Medicare ...

Fin Svcs Asian opportunity

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2011
... some 22 per cent of Australian finance professionals being approached by recruiters since the start of 2011 at least five times. Manpower Employment Outlook survey results found that 37 per cent of companies in the finance, insurance and real estate ...

Fundamental indexing isn't

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2011
... approaches can overweight companies that have high share prices even though they are under-performers. Speaking on a Financial Times web broadcast, Sauter said, "Indexing is trying to get the market return at the lowest cost possible." In contrast, Sauter ...

The seventh week

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2011
... weeks of hawking have brought the S&P 500 index down to oversold territory. It has also improved valuation. At around 12.8 times expected 2011 earnings, it's the cheapest since August. And for history buffs, the S&P 500 had only seen three seven consecutive ...

MTAA Super strikes back against claims of unhedging

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2011
... and taxes measured at the end of each quarter since June 2009 have matched or exceeded the market average six out of seven times. On the one occasion the return lagged the market average it was only by 10 basis points. Delaney added that the fund's one ...

Fear is in the air

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2011
... didn't take the opportunity to assuage market fears. Is there something afoot in Big Benny's head? Is he letting the bad times roll to scare the pants off the markets -- and Washington -- so that he wouldn't even have to justify QE3... one and all would ...