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IFM to spend $25bn on Aussie infrastructure

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2019
... Australian Treasurer Josh Frydenberg, who in August called for such measures in preference to share buybacks and special dividends," IFM said. The $2.5 billion average spend is higher than the roughly $1 billion that IFM Investors has spent on its Australian ...

MLC Life wins group insurance mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2019
... ability for them to spread the risk across multiple countries and share in any positive insurance experience by way of dividends. GEB general manager Ludovic Bayard and chief network officer Tierry Mestach welcomed MLC Life as a partner to its firm. ...

Morningstar now an ETF issuer

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2019
... minimum investment size of $10,000. The fund has beat its benchmark MSCI All Country World ex-Australia Index with Net Dividends Reinvested (Hedged into $AUD) since inception, and in recent periods. Morningstar has priced the ETF at 39 bps per annum ...

Return to the mutual model: Expert

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 3 OCT 2019
... their policyholders. "This differs from the current bank owned model that sells and markets products to generate profits/dividends for their shareholders without necessarily benefiting policyholders," Daniels argued. "Furthermore, the profits of mutual ...

Saxo partners for new reporting service

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2019
... online portfolio tracker is used by over 100,000 investors in over 90 countries - it syncs with brokers to track trades, dividends and corporate actions automatically.

Beware dodgy auditors, sudden CFO moves: Plato

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2019
... with Plato's research around dividend traps. The investment manager predicts when companies are likely to cut their dividends. Hamson said that AMP's performance was an example of a dividend trap. "If you're trading on extremely high yield because the ...

Values trump value for retail investors

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2019
... lower financial returns if a company always acted ethically towards customers, employees and the community. While recent dividends were considered extremely or very important for 69% of people when determining whether they should invest in a company ...

Dividend payouts stagnate

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2019
ASX-listed companies continued to hold off paying dividends, extending a five-year long trend, a global index shows. According to Janus Henderson, dividend payouts rose 5.7% in the June quarter, thanks mainly to QBE Insurance, which rewarded shareholders ...

Plato to raise $200 million

KRISTI CHENG  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2019
... stocks, or some of the healthcare stocks, like CSL," he said. PL8 is the only LIC to pay regular monthly fully franked dividends, which they will continue to do after this raise. The fund paid 12 monthly 0.5c fully franked dividends for the year to June ...

HUB24 launches multi-currency functionality

KRISTI CHENG  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2019
... managed portfolios, giving managers the option to settle international securities transactions and have international dividends paid in either foreign currency or Australian dollars. Foreign currency may also be held in anticipation of trading in that ...