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Flat Australian dividends help case for global diversification

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2016
... the need for Australian investors to seek income in offshore markets as Australian equities continued to produce flat dividends. Dividends in Australia fell 0.2% on an underlying basis in the three months to end of June. The largest payer, Commonwealth ...

GBST profits down in "year of transformation"

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2016
... $12.5 million, in line with guidance," said DeDominicis. In spite of the falling profits, GBST's fully franked total dividends increased 5% to $11 million for the year and Australian revenue lifted slightly to $32.7 million from $32.3 million. Notwithstanding ...

Challenger sees record sales boost in 2016

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2016
... years, which means the growth opportunities we are capturing feed directly through to our earnings and higher shareholder dividends." "Over the past year, Challenger has launched a number of distribution partnerships to make Challenger annuities more ...

Sell everything (again?)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2016
... "London is vulnerable to a negative shock. All these people who are 'long' oil and mining companies thinking that the dividends are safe are going to discover that they're not at all safe." (RBS wasn't even factoring in Brexit at the time). But if you ...

Hunter Hall delivers profit boost

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2016
... to $1.14 billion. The group also declared a final fully franked dividend of 14.6 cents per share, which brings total dividends for FY2016 to 28.7c per share. "Domestic and global investment market conditions continue to be challenging, but the strong ...

Magellan full year profits up 14%

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2016
... of assets in global equities and 17% in infrastructure equities. Earnings per share increased 13% to 115.5 cents and dividends increased 19% to 89.3 cents. Magellan attributed the rise in profits to deepening its penetration of its global equities and ...

Stockspot and Class form data deal

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2016
... SMSFs will be one of our largest growth areas in the next 12 to 18 months as they seek access to global shares, franked dividends and impartial investment advice," Brycki said.

New income fund launches

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2016
... group. Walsh added this gives managers the freedom to invest when and where they want, with income sources including dividends on equities and real-estate investment trusts, coupons on both government and corporate bonds and option premia.

Keybridge hits back at Bentley on ASX

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2016
... and wants to acknowledge that [during his tenure] the company returned to profitability and re-commenced the paying of dividends after many years of losses." Finally, before encouraging shareholders to vote against Bentley's proposed resolutions, the ...

UniSuper reflects on investment highs and lows

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2016
... reason and could stay that way for some time." On the home front UniSuper said the Australian banking sector, including dividends, returned -10.4%, marking it the second worst-performing sector in the market behind energy. And, because banking constitutes ...