The Australian share market has experienced a strong rally over the past 12 months, although it must be said that this rally was off a low base.
So the question that all investors want to know - "Is the share market expensive now?"
One way of determining this is to consider the Equity Risk Premium. Equity Risk Premium by definition is "The excess return that an individual stock or the overall stock market provides over a risk-free rate. This excess return compensates investors for taking on the relatively higher risk of the equity market. The size of the premium will vary as the risk in a particular stock, or in the stock market as a whole, changes; high-risk investments are compensated with a higher premium."
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