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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 ...

Confused environment leads to Aussie stock volatility

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2016
... infrastructure and healthcare, continue to perform well operationally." Beaumont added while such companies are still lifting dividends, current market conditions show that investors are increasingly concerned with their delivery. "An example of this ...

Tax incentives for early stage investors too narrow: KPMG

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2016
... this will require a significant enactment of new legislation for innovation company taxation (such as definition of dividends and returns of capital). Unit trusts can achieve the same taxation outcomes as desired by the stated policy objectives, and ...

ZIRP to bring back "animal spirits"?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2016
... encouraging signs here. Nonetheless, if reports are to be believed, many businesses remain intent on sustaining a flow of dividends and returning capital to shareholders, and less focused on implementing plans for growth. Any plans for growth that might ...

Australian dividend growth outpaces global peers

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2016
The underlying growth in dividends paid by Australian companies grew 14.8% in 2015, comfortably ahead of the 9.9% rise in global dividends. According to the Henderson Global Dividend Index, global dividends reached $1.15 trillion in 2015, an increase ...