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Planners struggle to sell practices as values fall

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
... valuations of financial planning practices have also declined in recent years, with buyers reluctant to pay as much as in times past. Businesses are valued at multiples of the annual recurring revenue provided by clients. For example, the value of recurring ...

Property primed for inflow pick up

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2011
... bottom of the market, people have got gearing down to 40-50% and there's no risk at all but banks are still charging four times what they once were," he said. One area of increased inflow is Asian institutions. "A trend we're seeing in the industrial ...

The other emerging market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2011
... and gas, vehicles, corn, wheat, flour - explains why. These are the commodities whose prices have been on a tear in recent times. According to Agritrend SA, foodstuffs accounted for about 70 per cent of Argentina's 2010 export earnings. Excess liquidity ...

Hunter Hall defiant on Japan

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2011
... number of players from over 100 to around four, according to Buckland. "Their valuation tends to be something like sub 2 times when you look at their EV divided by their cash flow measured by the EBITDA. A typical wholesaler in Australia would be at ...

Banks loss is super fund gain: IFM

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2011
... compared that to APRA data which saw industry assets as a total up by 7.8 per cent, so we're growing by about three and a half times the rate... which we're encouraged by."

Super mergers drive new trends in asset consulting

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011
... clients informing them of the firm's new team structure and their 'faster' decision-making policy. And in a sign of the times, Frontier also created teams devoted to Asian research, 'real assets' including timber and commodities, and currency. "The main ...

Asgard upgrades insurance for FOFA

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
... which financial institution is the loan provider." Other new features include an instant quote tool, faster service delivery times, a wider range of insurance options and premiums and an online application process that's fully integrated with AdviserNET. ...

JMK rules

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
... per cent. Another proof that JMK's (John Maynard Keynes) "General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money" -- that during times of recession, the government should intervene to stimulate demand -- remains true to this day as when it was first published ...

AXA deal frees AllianceBernstein to target retail

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
... that very little money will move this year. Then from 2012, there will be an orderly, multi year transition at different times for different asset classes," said Bargholz. AMP will of course make its own decisions on who it wants to manage its investments ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
... 11 earthquake and tsunami could hit Y25 trillion ($A304.9 billion), more than double the 1995 Kobe quake and nearly four times more than Hurricane Katrina. Stocks started higher after the Dow Jones Industrial Average added 0.56 per cent on Wednesday ...