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Australian Ethical 'cautious' on valuations

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2025
... Alphabet (Google) and Meta platforms leading the AI revolution," it said. "While we continue to remain cautious on valuations - we don't want to overpay and risk owning risky investments - our funds participated in the strong markets, beating performance ...

Trump inaugurated as 47th President

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2025
... the last 12 to 18 months in the US economy has run into headwinds. That is now starting to challenge US equity market valuations," Hennessy said. "Looking back to September and the lows in bond yields, investors were predicting a high risk of recession ...

Investors should avoid overvalued US sectors: Talaria

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2025
... Selby-Smith said investors should avoid overvalued sectors and focus on assets with strong fundamentals and cheap starting valuations. "In uncertain markets, resilience and diversification are key, and at today's valuations, there is little room for ...

Trump's response to global conflict adds uncertainty to private markets: IFM

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2025
... administration, largely tax cuts, and less of those impeding it. This has resulted in US markets in particular having stretched valuations against most metrics and current economic performance," Joiner said. He added that to some degree "earnings and ...

Bull market buoys super funds' 2024 returns

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JAN 2025
... moving to ease monetary policy and markets responding positively, we anticipate this should continue in 2025. "Equity valuations are elevated but, for now, they are supported by continued economic resilience and earnings growth." Additionally, Australian ...

HMC Capital unit beefs up Melbourne office

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024
... Australian Unity, and Westpac Institutional Bank. The second new risk specialist is Andrew Hobbs. With a background in valuations, Hobbs previously spent three years at MaxCap as a senior associate, specialising in valuation and feasibility reviews for ...

Trustee valuation processes 'concerning': APRA review

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 17 DEC 2024
... interest arising from investment staff being involved in the valuation process and a lack of demonstrated challenge to valuations. It said while all trustees use a governance committee or group for valuations, only 11 have a dedicated committee, while ...

Wellington client exec departs

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2024
... industry. Before his 20-year stint with Wellington, Davies worked as a senior asset consultant with MLC and an actuarial valuations manager at Southern Life in South Africa. As for King, he has spent 16 years at the firm and worked in the Sydney office ...

Venture capital exits expected to grow in 2025: Preqin

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2024
... Europe at US$0.2 trillion. The report found the higher interest rate environment continued to temper venture capital valuations in 2024, which impacted exits and overall performance. By Q3 2024, venture capital exits totaled 852 with an aggregate value ...

Eyes on gaming, Chinese tech in 2025: Orbis

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2024
... prolonged period, and while that's changed now, he still warns it comes with risk and extreme volatility. "Given where valuations are today, we feel like we are being appropriately compensated for some of those risks, and that is starting to look ...