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ASIC flags end-of-year signposts

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2009
... calling on listed financial services companies to provide more disclosure on their 'going concern' assumptions, asset valuations and hedging arrangements when they file their 30 June 2009 financial reports. Following its comprehensive review of the full ...

Unlisted valuations on track: Frontier

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2009
... "We asked what their valuation policy was and then asked for the current assets in the portfolio, what the current valuations were...[to] check the valuation process against the policy. "Broadly speaking there were no issues of any substance - we're ...

Bravura tags FINCAD

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2009
... capability, and will address the need among Bravura's buy-side clients for solutions that offer independent and transparent valuations of their securities, particularly for OTC derivatives. "By employing FINCAD's analytics solutions, we are significantly ...

Five minutes of sunshine

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2009
... expensive. Weaker activity equals lower profits equals lower share prices. In addition, higher interest rates reduce equity valuations and diminish the attraction of equity investing. This is because at some point, risk-free interest rates would be high ...

Ten years is too short: CBI

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
... 15 years, rather than the current ten, is a good point to start the process. "Valuing pension funds on spot market valuations during economic turmoil is highly misleading. Over the last year stock markets have tumbled and quantitative easing has affected ...

Diamonds are an investor's best friend

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
... to safeguard their wealth, this is having a knock-on effect in the insurance industry which is witnessing climbing valuations. "In the past year we've insured more than [$2 million] to [$12 million-plus] fine art, jewelry and car collections than in ...

Aspen fund holds 'recommended' rating

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
... entire portfolio of 25 parks to provide greater transparency. As a result, the fund now has updated independent asset valuations, solid income returns and revised ratings research. The fund posted an 8 per cent return over a year to April. The Lonsec ...

Clarion call for bargain global property

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2009
... that the listed market is forward looking, it's an imperfect crystal ball and it tends to overshoot. We put our REITs [valuations] down by 50 per cent and the markets put them down another 20 per cent,' he said. He said the market is undergoing a re-capitalisation ...

AXA Rosenberg launches EM strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2009
... earnings yield. "During periods of book-to-price compression, like 2004 to 2007, we saw companies trading at very similar valuations; however we are now seeing an expansion of spreads across many valuation measures such as book-to-price...many stocks ...

Surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2009
... as their lot. More still, began expecting things to become worster (if only there was such a word). As such market valuations were pushed down to levels that spooked the living daylights out of investors. What did we get? Profit downgrades - left, right ...