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Factor investing sees new customised approach

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2016
... added value factor investing is cheap by definition and is as cheap now as it has been in 20 years or since the dot com bubble. The most expensive factors are momentum and growth. He said most factor returns tend to be earned in a period of contraction. ...

OneVentures says VC needs scale in Australia

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2016
... capital investing in 1987, again in 1999, and now - which leaves her concerned because the country gets "excited at the bubble." She said during those vintage years, the returns on venture capital were horrible. But the US, which reformed venture capital ...

Drown baby, drown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2016
... the Middle East (the beginning of the second intifada). But other factors were more important: the bust of the internet bubble, the collapse of real investment and, in smaller measure, the Fed tightening between 1999 and 2000." The negative effects of ...

Demographic darlings and disasters revealed

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2016
... "The recent increase in housing and utilities as a percentage of the consumption breakdown is worrying, as it points to bubble formation. Commodity price weakness is bound to be another drag on the country in the future, given its focus on mining and ...

Lift then back to zero (even negative)?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2015
... course and cut rates all over again: a shock to the U.S. economy from abroad, persistently low inflation, some new financial bubble bursting and slamming the economy, or lost momentum in a business cycle which, at 78 months, is already longer than 29 ...

OPINION: Super is Murray's big rock

ANDREW BRAGG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2015
Properly calibrating the superannuation system is the most important policy change from the Murray review of the financial system. Super could be sharper, leaner and easier to understand. That's why the Murray proposals to define the objective of superannuation ...

Tax conversation in a bubble

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015
... firm H&R Block has weighed in on the national tax debate, suggesting there is a danger the conversation is being held in a bubble between "pontificating politicians, policy nerds, lobby groups, academics and media types." H&R Block director of tax communications ...

Multimillionaires still love property above everything else

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2015
... highest allocation is in real estate, a sign that there are opportunities in the asset class despite warnings of a property bubble. The latest Capgemini and RBC Wealth Management Global HNW Insights Survey for 2015 revealed that Australian HNWs' allocation ...

Feds still in a hole at the Jackson

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
... falls below 8% (frim double digits), this was followed by the implosion that would follow the bursting of the property bubble and over-reliance on investment, followed by the potential debt disaster from ballooning local government debts, followed by ...

Asia: Between fortune and fate

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... says that Chinese authorities have encouraged retail investment to enter the stock market to cool down the growing housing bubble. Retail investors represent about 85% of the market, while foreign investors are less than 2%. This makes it a highly volatile ...