growth stocks

The beginning of 2022 has marked a significant shift in the market paradigm, with the multi-decade tailwind of falling bond yields, which supported the valuation of ‘long duration’ assets like growth stocks, turning into a headwind. The impact has been far swifter than many expected.

ASX retakes 7,000, iron ore falls, CBA hits new record, dispersion grows  The ASX200 (ASX:XJO) finished the week on a positive note, moving 0.5% higher and retaking the 7,000-point level. Every sector was higher barring materials, with Fortescue (ASX:FMG) and BHP Group (ASX:BHP) falling 2.8% and 1.5% respectively after the iron ore price dropped 9.5% during the day. On the positive side, the…

And that’s a wrap. Reporting season is over. And to describe it in one word, the February 2021 reporting season was ‘pleasant.’ There weren’t too many surprises on the downside, winners exceeded losers, and the themes were as expected. However, prices moved well in advance of results. This meant that despite a significant number of…

Don Ezra, a now-retired celebrity adviser in the institutional world, still offers his views, in blog form, on all sorts of issues facing retirees. Recently, he turned his attention to the possible growth stock bubble. In his series ‘Life after Full-time Work’ (link) Ezra admits that no-one knows when, nor if, the current record spread…

Whilst the Australian ‘oracle’ Hamish Douglass and his Magellan Financial Group continue to capture most of the media attention, renowned value manager, Platinum, has shown signs of regaining lost ground. Where Magellan took a risk off view ahead of the vaccine announcements in the December quarter, resulting in rare underperformance against the benchmark, all but…