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Trust gives Perpetual a chance to match IOOF offer

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013
... year. IOOF is offering 0.74 IOOF shares per Trust share or guaranteed minimum cash consideration as well as a special dividend of $0.22 per Trust share. The guaranteed minimum cash consideration will be the higher of $6.03 or the cash equivalent value ...

Cbus to divest tobacco holdings as stocks fall from highs

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013
... have been favourites of fund managers globally in the wake of the financial crisis as they provide both an attractive dividend yield and defensive characteristics. Earnings have remained largely unaffected by challenging economic conditions. In US dollar ...

The Trust Company to consider IOOF offer

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2013
... Saturday. IOOF is offering 0.74 IOOF shares per Trust share or guaranteed minimum cash consideration as well as a special dividend of $0.22 per Trust share. The guaranteed minimum cash consideration will be the higher of $6.03 or the cash equivalent ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2013
... 24 cents at $73.08. In the resources sector, global miner BHP Billiton was 18.5 cents lower at $35.36 as it traded ex-dividend, while Rio Tinto lifted $1.12 to $59.42. Iron ore miner Fortescue lifted 3.5 cents to $4.36 despite going ex-dividend. Telstra ...

Prime targets investment in accounting firms

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2013
... was down 1.1% to $2.78 million. Earnings per share stayed flat at 1.7 cents per share while Prime increased its final dividend to 0.50 cents per share, up from 0.25 cents per share in 2012. The rise brings the total dividend paid and proposed for 2013 ...

M&A drives SFG double digit growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2013
... profit after tax was $32.5 million, 14% more than the prior corresponding period. The SFG Board has determined a final dividend of 1.40 cents per share, reflecting a 40% increase on the prior corresponding period. "We have made considerable progress ...

Perpetual profits boosted by cost savings initiative

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2013
... after tax was $75.9 million, up 16%. Revenue was up 1% to $361.6 million and the group will pay a final fully franked dividend of 80 cents per share, bringing total fully franked dividends for the 2013 financial year to 130 cents per share, up 40 cents ...

Blue Sky grows revenue 48%

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2013
... its assets under management (AUM) from approximately $200 million to $350 million. The company will pay a fully franked dividend of 6 cents per share to investors. In August 2013, Blue Sky completed a successful private share placement, raising an additional ...

ClearView reports 92% drop in profits

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2013
... figures down to "adverse term life insurance claims experience", loss of investment earnings due to a lower cash rate, dividend pay outs, and a higher effective tax rate. However, managing director Simon Swanson said that underlying NPAT was the most ...

Abbott's PPL scheme to hit Australia's charities

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013
Federal treasurer Chris Bowen maintained his attack on the Coalition's proposed 1.5% levy on business that is intended to cover the paid parental leave (PPL) scheme, calling it "a retrograde step of quite enormous proportions." Speaking this morning ...