VALUATIONS

Financial planning

With small financial advice firms vulnerable to key person risk, there can be a tangible monetary cost to a practice’s value if the owner dies suddenly. ...

Funds management

Relative value looks more finely balanced at the start of this year with opportunities for positive total returns and valuations point to the potential for higher prices ...

Funds management

Nine years into the global market’s bull run, ETFs appear to be pushing US tech stocks into unrealistic valuations in ways that may end badly for many, a new whitepaper s...

Funds management

Magellan founder and chief investment officer, Hamish Douglass has defended his firm’s continuing exposure to US stocks and suggested that claims they are over-priced may...

Funds management

Given the extreme valuations attributed to key growth stocks, and the likelihood that interest rates have bottomed, Maple-Brown Abbott argues that value is set for a peri...

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MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

5 months 1 week ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

5 months 2 weeks ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

7 months 2 weeks ago

The RBA has handed down its much-anticipated rate decision, following widespread expectations of a close call....

6 days 16 hours ago

The FSCP has issued a written direction to an adviser who charged clients “extraordinary fees” for inappropriate and conflicted advice, as well as encouraged them to swit...

3 weeks ago

ASIC has confirmed the industry funding levy for the 2024–25 financial year, and how much licensees can expect to pay....

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