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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 ...

Aussie income fund added to platforms

KRISTI CHENG  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2019
... Income Fund is to provide investors with a regular and stable income of 5%+ p.a. through an investment cycle comprised of dividends, distributions and interest, plus capital growth from a portfolio of global listed infrastructure securities." He added ...

Cooper Investors launches equities fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2019
... downside capture were roughly 88% and 62% respectively of the reference index. The manager uses the MSCI All World net dividends in local currency as the reference index to measure the volatility and the downside capture but the strategy is mostly benchmark ...

VanEck changes tack on ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2019
Australia's only exchange-traded fund to track S&P/ASX 200 companies which pay 100% franked dividends has changed its strategy. The VanEck Vectors S&P/ASX Franked Dividend ETF (ASX: FDIV) tracked an index that VanEck developed with S&P Dow Jones ...

Super fund awards Aussie equity mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2019
... includes a 100% stock equity exposure with lower beta via the options overlay strategy, and high yield derived from dividends as well as option income. These two sources of yield provide for more stability over time through different market conditions ...

OnePath awards $210m in mandates

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2019
... firm managed about $7.5 billion in Aussie equities at December end. "They have a history of delivering income stream/dividends in accordance with stated investment objectives over the long term," OnePath said. The fund also picked Carlos Cocaro and Damien ...

Chief economist update: Like Britney Spears, Financial Standard's done it again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2019
... near-certainty of the RBA cutting the official cash rate to a new all-time low of 1.25% in June has already delivered dividends in the form of the Australian dollar's depreciation and a surge in the Australian equities market to 11-year highs. The ...

Australia lags on dividends

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2019
... five years, even as they continue to climb up globally, according to the latest Janus Henderson Dividend Index. Global dividends now sit at almost twice the level they were at a decade ago when the index started in 2009, Janus Henderson said. They rose ...