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Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
... tax returns appeared to be coming back into the market. "Investors are trying to take advantage of some fairly cheap valuations on some of these stocks and the banks are doing okay as well after we have gone through a bit of a slow period," he told AAP. ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2014
... tax returns appeared to be coming back into the market. "Investors are trying to take advantage of some fairly cheap valuations on some of these stocks and the banks are doing okay as well after we have gone through a bit of a slow period," he told AAP. ...

Capacity issues drive super funds in-house

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014
... underperformance there is some interest on the small caps space, on maintaining allocations to small caps or to capitalise on valuations in thatA part of the market." Despite super funds' increasing internal capabilities, Carew was optimistic about the ...

S&P 500: 22 corrections in 6 months

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014
... other market players of little faith willing Wall Street to have a big fall. Their rationales ranging from expensive valuations, slow economic growth (and therefore, tepid earnings growth), geo-politics - Iraq, Russia, Ukraine, Syria - and its effect ...

Going solo: Australian equity houses at risk of talent exodus

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2014
... Australian equity managers including investors' growing preference for direct shares, a reduced appetite for risk and valuations approaching fair value. "The consensus view is that Australian shares are close to fair value but there are still opportunities ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2014
... in a bull market," said Tom Cahill, portfolio strategist at Ventura Wealth Management. "Nothing has really changed. Valuations are getting a little bit stretched, but by the same token, there is nothing in the data that suggests that the bull market ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2014
... are expecting an economic acceleration in the US". Ablin said the tumble on the Nasdaq was a result of "expensive" valuations for Nasdaq and small-cap stocks. LONDON - Europe's main stock markets rose, with Frankfurt's DAX 30 gaining 0.54 per cent to ...

Future Fund and super returns on par

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
... as markets have continued to respond to policy efforts to lift economic activity. Markets are relatively buoyant and valuations across most sectors are now looking fairly full," he said. Fuelling the Future Fund's returns during the past year has been ...

Catholic Super seeds new AllianceBernstein fund

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2014
... retirees. "By combining the complementary characteristics of price stability, high quality cash flows and reasonable valuations, the Fund aims to capture most of the upside in rising markets as well as reducing downside risk," Driscoll said.

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 ...