The relationship of earnings acceleration to outperformance has had only limited empirical studies. In fact, most studies focus on the US market, and we believe our research is one of the first to examine earnings acceleration in a global universe, by region and sector.
Earnings acceleration refers to the change in the velocity of growth in a company’s earnings. The exact point can be subjective, but it fundamentally refers to the stage when a company’s earnings growth experiences an inflection point on a sustainably upward path.
One of the fundamental requirements for applying capital gains tax (CGT) concessions is the asset being sold must be ‘active’ and this is not always as easy or straight-forward as it sounds.
The basic conditions that must be satisfied to access small business CGT concessions are that the taxpayer must either have an aggregated turnover of less than $2 million or aggregated net assets with a value not exceeding $6 million, with extra requirements when selling shares in a company.
The financial advice industry is undergoing a major transformation and financial advisers face an increasing number of constraints on their time.
Current risk and compliance requirements are a result of numerous inquiries into the quality of advice provided by the financial planning industry and are designed to protect consumers, something of which the industry as a whole is supportive of.
Factor investing, also known as smart beta, has become increasingly popular as investors realise they can harvest factor-driven excess returns and diversification over the market capitalisation-weighted benchmark through a simple, transparent, and rules-based approach.
Separation and divorce can have a negative financial impact on many clients. In these situations, advisers often play a critical role by assisting with the practical aspects of splitting assets and cash, and can further demonstrate the value of personal advice in the area of life insurance.
Some may consider raising the topic of life insurance during the beginning of a marriage breakdown as bad timing; however, it’s an important conversation to have earlier rather than later.
There are plenty of ESG funds available on the market, writes Warwick Schneller, but the lack of universal definition means some may not be having a real-world impact.
For some time now, strong credentials in environmental, social and governance – ‘ESG’ to use the shorthand – have been the buzzwords on every investor’s lips.
It would seem that everyone now wants to make investments in companies with strong ESG scores, with asset managers wanting to offer investments that stand up to ESG scrutiny. But there can be no denying the suspicion that ESG investments may not be able to keep pace with ‘traditional’ investments.
We no longer live in an era of short-lived industrial cycles driven by the dynamics of manufacturing and the management of tangible capital. Today, we live in an era of long-term transitions in the key value chains of the modern economy, usually starting with a disruption that has an impact across several different industries.
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