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 ago

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

5 months ago

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

7 months ago

Commonwealth Bank has formally dropped to zero advisers following LGT Crestone’s acquisition of its advice arm – some six years on from the Hayne royal commission. ...

4 weeks 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...

1 week 3 days ago

ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...

2 weeks 6 days ago