value investing

Equity markets are currently at all-time highs. This has generated returns that, we believe, are unlikely to continue, so we need to think about where returns are...

The a2 Milk Company (a2) has always been an interesting business, especially over the past five years. From 2015 to 2020 the business delivered explosive growth....

Paul Skamvougeras has the privilege of managing Perpetual's Wholesale Concentrated Equity Fund, one of Australia's longest-running unlisted managed products. As the...

A near-perfect environment for cyclical stocks will unfold over the next year, says L1 Capital’s co-CIO Mark Landau. Alongside depressed share prices and “roaring...

Pro-value cycles have historically been long and durable. The evidence suggests we are in the early stages of what may be a powerful period of value outperformance....

The rotation into low multiple - or value - stocks has gathered pace in recent months following an acceleration in the vaccine rollout, combined with additional...

Why invest The simple answer to the fundamental question of why we invest is of course to make money. Perhaps to build personal wealth, or perhaps to build a...

Twelve months on from the COVID-19 led market correction, the rotation to value stocks has continued as further economic re opening beckons. Locally, Consumer...

Despite its strong run, the Allan Gray Australia Equity portfolio remains heavily tilted towards beaten-up cyclical companies, as their decade-long underperformance...

The monetary and fiscal stimulus poured into the global economy, in particular the US, over the last 12 months has seen our team find new opportunities for growth and...

In the past we have commented several times on the relative performance of value vs growth investing, including this article from the middle of last year, which...

For mostly obvious reasons, 2020 was the wildest year in recent memory for the global economy and markets across all asset classes. We saw markets fall and economic...

The last month marked the anniversary of the rapid global spread of COVID-19. It was a time of massive panic, underscored by unknown health risks, school and office...

Tailwinds for investors can take many forms, and they are worth seeking out. For example, falling bond yields have been an enduring tailwind for long-duration assets,...

Value investing, like bargain hunting, is about buying companies that appear to be cheaper than they are worth. This often means buying companies that are out of...

In the February 2021 monthly update for the Platinum International Fund, we noted that: “When we look at long term (i.e. 35 years) valuation analysis, relative to...

A pullback in the “eye-watering” share prices of some of Australia’s technology juggernauts is a matter of when, not if, says Dougal Maple-Brown of value-centric fund...

There is no escaping it. Every decision we make in life is influenced by a combination of emotion, intellect and circumstance.Whether it is the flavour of ice...

This week we turn our attention to the previously unloved (and underperforming) but now surging area of the stock market, value stocks. The question on everyone's...

As borders reopen and Australians return to a new-normal, our economy moves from a pandemic to a recovery stage. Matthew Haupt and John Ayoub, large cap specialists at...