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Contango set to launch small cap LIC

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2014
... employed for its Income Generator (Ex-30) Strategy since 2012. It has an emphasis on companies that will grow their dividends and franking accounts over time and achieves diversification through invests predominantly I the mid- and small-cap parts of ...

Capital Group expands retail sales team

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2014
... from early 2015, including an active equity strategy focused on companies that the management believe will grow their dividends over three to five years. These will be in addition to its current institutional global equity funds and the Capital Emerging ...

Vanguard launches hedged and unhedged intl ETFs

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
... 1500 companies across 22 markets, excluding Australia. The unhedged VGS tracks the MSCI World ex-Australia (with net dividends reinvested) in Australian dollars Index, and the hedged VGAD tracks the MSCI World ex-Australia (with net dividends reinvested) ...

NAB profits dip on UK write down

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2014
... billion and cash return on equity of 11.8%, a 9.8% and 2.3% decrease respectively. Of its four key headline results, only dividends saw an increase, up 4.2% from 2013 at $1.98 per share. Commenting on the earnings drop which was foreshadowed in October ...

Global dividends reach record high

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2014
A slowdown in Australian dividend payments did little to dent dividends globally as payments broke the existing record for the September quarter. Global dividends reached US$288.1 billion in Q3, a record for the third quarter, according to the latest ...

The Future Fund is not a super fund: Costello

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2014
... Fund is owned by the government. There is no point in the government taxing itself. The government does not tax the dividends of its bank, the Reserve Bank of Australia; it does not tax the dividends of its wealth fund, the Future Fund." Another major ...

Libertas FP to offer SMA portfolios

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2014
... Equities Portfolio, which is a blue-chip equities portfolio, giving investors direct exposure to the earnings growth, dividends and franking credits of around 30 of Australia's biggest companies. The portfolio is designed to exhibit high correlation ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2014
... Michael McCarthy said Westpac, which was trading ex-dividend on Monday, was the biggest drag on the bourse. "Bank ex-dividends are part of the explanation of today's underperformance - Westpac itself accounting for around thirteen-and-a-half points of ...

SSgA warns of equity market complacency

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2014
... as they became very under-valued and the higher quality names were generating a lot of cash and even started paying dividends. Volumes are there and earnings a lot more predictable than what they were two years ago."

BetaShares launches new equity income fund

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2014
... portfolio will be regularly rebalanced to gain exposure to securities that have been actively screened for high levels of dividends and franking within the next rebalance period. The fund also employs a risk management strategy which aims to reduce the ...