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Contango LIC slashes cash allocation after acquisition

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2018
... companies outside of the top 30 ASX-listed companies. Following the change, the board expects the cash coverage of CIE's dividends and to increase over time as CIE's overall equity position rises, following the asset allocation change. It also expects ...

Personal tax cuts lead the Budget

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
... Australians paying 37 cents in the dollar," Morrison said. The budget also wants all investors who are receiving franked dividends to keep their tax refunds, in a move to oppose tax grabs on retirees and pensioners. It reassured that it's already-legislated ...

Beer tap runs dry for $2 billion manager

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2018
... producer Anheuser-Busch Inbev at $20 a share, eleven years later the price rose to about $100 a share - not counting dividends. PM Capital's investments in beer stocks hit their peak in 2008, when it put 22% of its total portfolio into brewing companies. ...

Shuttering dividend cash loophole to hit SMSFs

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2018
... term, he added. The dividend imputation system, introduced by Paul Keating in 1987, eliminates the double taxation of dividends on two levels: The tax companies pay on profits that are then distributed to shareholders who pay personal income tax on dividends. ...

Hunter Hall veteran launches new business

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2018
... in Nvidia at US$12 per share (now valued at about US$240) and Take-Two Interactive (then US$14, now US$110 excluding dividends). His new firm, Andaz Private Investments, will target annual returns of 25 to 30%, similar to the compound annual returns ...

Tax strategies boost retirement savings: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2018
... Parametric said. Researchers used two hypothetical super funds: One had an equity portfolio with a pre-tax focus and ignored dividends and capital gains taxes, while the second equity portfolio uses a tax-efficient strategy. Over a 40-year period, members ...

Go your own way: AXA IM

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2018
... next billion middle-class consumers will come from Asia. "If you want to buy into real growth, real earnings and real dividends, you've got to look at where all the real economic activity is going on," he said. China has transformed itself from a total ...

Morrison backs customer-owned banking reforms

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2017
... creation of a new class of co-operative equity shares - which will not require voting rights to be attached, and allow dividends to be capped in line with mutual business models - could give mutuals funding flexibility and "raise billions of dollars ...

Passive investors excluded from small business tax cuts

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 19 SEP 2017
... that a company will not qualify for the lower company tax rate if 80% or more of income is of a passive nature (such as dividends and interest). Corporate tax entities with predominantly passive income will be given access to the lower corporate tax ...

Managed accounts add brilliant value for dealer group

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 SEP 2017
... certainty they have pension payments coming without having to sell any of the growth assets." By the time they receive dividends, that provides six to 10 years of liquidity, because one core investment belief is ensuring clients not having to sell growth ...