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SMSFs must increase global equities investment

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2016
... seeking to own international shares directly. Yet managed portfolio benefits include direct asset ownership, access to dividends, administrative ease, and potential tax minimisation via capital gains tax modeling and tax parcel optimisation. "International ...

Retirees can't rely on "mediocre" large-caps: Montgomery

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2016
... proportion of their annual profits to reinvest at an attractive rate of return." Part of this is because of the high dividends currently paid out by blue chips, resulting in a situation where, as Montgomery put it, "The [companies have] retained none ...

Global equities tease income opportunity

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2016
... returns from historically low interest rates and diversify their portfolios. Often favoured for their regular payments of dividends and possible tax benefits offered by franking credits, equities are seen as a popular choice in the search for income. ...

Australia tanks in global dividend index

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2016
... Billiton leading to Australia tumbling down the Henderson Global Dividend Index in the first quarter. In Australia, dividends plunged to US$2.8 billion ($3.9 billion), down 49.8% on a headline basis. BHP Billiton, which cut over US$2 billion ($2.8 billion) ...

Federation Alliance launches Federation Super

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2016
... shareholders in Federation Alliance. Investors who decide to take up the offer may participate in any future growth and dividends Federation Alliance aims to create from its activities, which may have the effect of indirectly reducing their administration ...

Australia joining global retirement focus: Challenger

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2016
... who may have invested in equities over this last year, and if you're a retiree, you may have been there to pick up the dividends but the reality is you probably dropped anywhere between 10 and 15% of your capital value. And if you take the global outlook ...

Bank love affair with wealth management waning

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2016
... counterparts, Australian banks have typically muscled through weaker economic conditions and delivered bumper profits and dividends to shareholders. This was not so much the case when 1HY16 results were announced, as the effects of a rebalancing economy ...

Van Eck launching infrastructure and dividend ETFs

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2016
... S&P/ASX Franked Dividend ETF, meanwhile, tracks companies on the S&P/ASX 200 Index that have paid out fully-franked dividends over the past two years. To do this, it will track a new index developed jointly between S&P Dow Jones Indices and Van Eck ...

More numerate less likely to open SMSF

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2016
... main investment strategy they undertook was to move their assets into Australian shares that are paying fully franked dividends. This was followed by boosting contributions and moving into safer assets. It matches up with aggregate data from the ATO. ...

Martin Currie cautious on dividend growth

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2016
... them to grow." He believes a company such as BHP is looking at moving away from its progressive dividend policy whereby dividends are not reduced when earnings per share fall. "They're [BHP] underlying cash flow is quite strong. It peaked at $24 billion ...