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Trend - up, down or up and down?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014
... before. Companies are only beating earnings expectations because of lowered expectations. Stocks are overbought and valuations are expensive. Equally rational rationales, 'ey? Times like these, perhaps the prudent thing to do is to stay away... we're ...

Time to go away?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2014
... According to Bloomberg, "Technology shares were hit as traders dumped the biggest winners of the bull market amid concern valuations have advanced too far... The Nasdaq Composite Index... trades at 31.5 times reported earnings of the companies in the ...

Front-runners

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
... trading's sake, rather than serving the real economy." Who'd care about the Fed, the economic outlook, interest rates, valuations, etc. when all you have to do is monitor buy/sell orders and get in a few milliseconds early? What think you folks?

J.P. Morgan launches two wholesale funds

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2014
... us to focus on such opportunities across the market cycle." Elaborating on the emerging market fund, he said: "With valuations of emerging market equities trading around the 1.5 price-to-book multiple, this has traditionally been a good entry point for ...

Class Super launches browser-based platform

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2014
... popular Windows application, including direct-connect data feeds, Actuarial Certificate integration, automatic property valuations, and support for bulk transactions, pensions, activity statements, tax lodgements directly to the ATO and client access," ...

Brookvine inks US micro cap deal

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2014
... remain very favourable. Cash levels are at all-time highs, operating leverage is better than it has been in years and valuations relative to larger cap stocks are compelling. I think Australian investors should be attracted to the US micro cap sector ...

Federation platform adds Pengana Aussie Equities Fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2014
... seek ways to maintain capital and produce reasonable returns in the face of volatility and stretched equity market valuations," Pengana Capital director of distribution Damian Crowley said. The Pengana Australian Equities Fund has recently passed $350m ...

Waiting to catch up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2013

FoFA boosts advice business valuation

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2013
The valuations of advice businesses compliant with the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) regulation have increased in Western Australia, Victoria and New South Wales. "Concerns around FoFA have not lowered valuation multiples and in some states they ...

Record dry powder levels in unlisted infra funds

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2013
... having record levels of dry powder available to invest, there are ongoing issues impacting deal flow, such as high asset valuations caused by the higher levels of capital being raised and greater interest in the most desirable assets." At $42 billion ...