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EQT eyes global expansion

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 28 AUG 2017
... reflecting the acquisition of the Sandhurst Trustees' trust and estates business during the year. EQT paid fully franked of dividends 36 cents per share; its share price at publication time was $17.50.

Emerging markets need a rethink

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2017
... companies with a market cap above US$1 billion, an average daily trading volume above US$1 million and that pay regular dividends. As at July 31, its highest country weightings are India, China, Mexico, Indonesia and South Africa. The top 10 holdings ...

Douglass makes case for Magellan turnaround

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 AUG 2017
... on average, will produce a return roughly equal to the underlying earnings growth of all companies in the index, plus dividends, minus negative returns from failing companies and manager fees. Therefore, he continued, in order for such a fund to earn ...

Financial services ripe for mergers and acquisitions

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 AUG 2017
... greater involvement of the Australian Taxation Office in such activities, with the regulator increasingly looking at dividends and franking credit balances and often having a say in how they are distributed. As such, those involved in M&A must ensure ...

Exposing the hidden risks of cash

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUL 2017
... Financial Standard Best Practice Forum on Retirement Income, Hofflin argued that "in our view, the 'worst case' income from dividends seems well above even today's cash rate." Illustrating this, he pointed to the average decline of 32% of gross dividend ...

Milton to acquire $18m unlisted manager

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUL 2017
... it was pleasing that the dividend could be lifted once again. "Milton has sufficient franking credits to fully frank dividends for the foreseeable future and with total assets valued at $2.9 billion and no debt, the company is in a sound position to ...

MDA provider builds custom solution

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUL 2017
... 'black box' of managed funds. "Our MDA service allows clients to view their portfolios, typically on one page, and see dividends and franking credits as they hit their account, which is especially attractive for clients in pension phase who want to know ...

Countplus sells off underperformers and merges firms

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUL 2017
... engaged in "inappropriate behaviour." This has also precipitated Countplus revising its dividend policy: from now on, dividends will now be paid half-yearly rather than quarterly. Future dividends will be declared in the range of 40-70% of maintainable ...

Second private equity firm bids $2.2bn

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUL 2017
... conditional on matters the Vocus board said were substantially similar to the bid KKR made in June. KKR's terms were that no dividends will be paid before implementation of the scheme, options or performance rights would be acquired or cancelled, net ...

Banks continue campaign to discredit SA bank tax

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUL 2017
... companies and are largely passed on to shareholders - 35,000 South Australian shareholders received $146 million in dividends last financial year. "We support the South Australian community and we strongly believe this tax is unfair on the people of ...