valuations

The QVG team has punched well above the index by sticking to its knitting of identifying quality small caps and shorting companies facing sustained earnings downgrades...

Savers have long recognised the need to balance income and capital, but recently this has proven difficult as yields of all asset classes have fallen to very low...

When Simon Doyle of Schroders Australia takes a broad view of the recent performance of capital markets and thinks about the undercurrents of shifting geopolitical,...

The purpose of this blog post is to provide a progress check and update on that controversial (at the time) "Global Equities: A Generational Buying Opportunity...

Since late last year we’ve viewed 2021 as a year of potential and opportunity in global equity markets. While a lot of focus has been on the US and the mega-cap Tech...

I wrote recently that for all the terrible consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, it had a major positive effect in ending a long-running economic cycle while kicking...

Investors have flocked to large technology and communications growth companies in 2020, even as macro drivers injected considerable volatility into financial markets....

In the wake of the Global Financial Crisis, the world shifted away from the Yellow Pages. Now, they’re merely used as seat boosters. Joe Magyer, CIO at Lakehouse...

The Australian stock market set a new record at the end of June 2020. The ASX Information Technology GICS sector beat the all-time high forward P/E record set in March...

Despite facing a myriad of problems equity markets have staged a stunning comeback rally over the last three months. Liquidity from central banks, combined with...

The bear market bounce or relief rally continued through May but might be showing signs of losing momentum. The rally in April came after the initial shock of the...

Gold prices have continued their bull market run in Q2 2020, with the yellow metal trading above USD 1,700 per troy ounce. This reflects a sustained upward trajectory...

The unprecedented impact of COVID-19 across business and society is invoking a fiscal response last used by wartime governments 75 years ago, according to...

The pace of the spread of COVID-19 globally has been faster than many of us had expected or could have feared. The first case in China can be traced back to November...

The purpose of this blog post is to take an objective and balanced account of what may well end up becoming a generational buying opportunity in global equities. To...

Since listing in 1994, Australian biotech company CSL has powered ahead to become our second largest company by market cap. Lying just ahead is the Commonwealth Bank....

We have seen several highly-regarded equity commentators recently justify stretched equity market valuations based on depressed government bond yields. Magellan, a...

Nearly 20 years after the last technology bubble, we’re in funny season again, and you don’t need to be an economics PhD to see it. Crazy valuations are being...

Understanding how the cycle is progressing has been especially difficult in the post-GFC years. The apparent impotence of monetary policy via its traditional credit...

Fund managers and CEOs around the world have been adjusting their estimates and guidance in the wake of the recent volatility. As defensive stocks have come back to...