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Earnings season worst on record: CommSec

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2020
... CommSec's history of earnings season reporting with aggregate full-year earnings down 38% on the previous year and aggregate dividends fell by 36%. CommSec said for some companies it has been "the toughest year in living memory". Company revenues increased ...

Dividend cuts not as bad as expected

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2020
Most people expected dividends to fall by 30% this year, but company payouts this earnings season have been decent, says Ausbil. Ausbil's Michael Price, who manages its active dividend income fund, said in general, the firm has been pleasantly surprised ...

REITs better value than bonds, equities: LaSalle

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2020
... entities accessed their lines of credit, suspended non-essential capital expenditures, and some or suspended or cut dividends," Kaufman said. "In normal times, announcements like these would be scary, but given the level of uncertainty surrounding the ...

ANZ posts profit, announces dividend

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2020
... uncertain economic environment," Gonski said. "We agree with APRA's view that all ADIs should be prudent in considering dividends. We arrived at our decision independently and it sits comfortably within APRA's guidance." The banks total provision charge ...

FSU wants CBA to up pay

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2020
... environment this year to assist the CBA to achieve its profit result." She added that while shareholders will benefit from the dividends which FSU described as "generous", bank workers should not be forgotten. "Of course, the bank has done well. These ...

Contango dumps investment strategy, opens raise

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2020
... raising $20 million. Shareholders can acquire up to $30,000 of shares at 62.5 cents per share. CIE has a policy to pay dividends of no less than 6.5% of the company's net tangible asset (NTA) value per share. Following a review of the strategy and dividend ...

Wheelhouse names new partners

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2020
... investor capital from market downturns," MacLeod said. "For the first time in decades, investors are facing falling dividends, fewer traditional income yielding options and inflated asset prices across the board, which is transferring more risk to capital ...

Chi-X TraCRs added to specialist platform

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2020
... have, until now, been unable to easily invest in. "Chi-X TraCRs provide the added advantage of HIN based ownership, AUD dividends repatriated at institutional foreign exchange rates, fungibility to the underlying offshore asset and T+2 settlement, which ...

Adviser jailed over $2m Ponzi scheme

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2020
... instead used them for his own benefit and to meet business expenses, which included payments made to other clients as dividends. In all, Miller misappropriated $1.865 million. Of this, $987,000 was transferred to bank accounts and credit cards held by ...

Banks ordered to reduce dividend payout ratios

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2020
Banks and insurers have been asked to retain at least half of their earnings while deciding dividends until December, after APRA issued revised guidelines. The prudential regulator in April asked banks and insurers to consider deferring dividend decisions ...