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Retiring 'comfortably may require 3 income building blocks: Legg Mason

PROMOTED BY LEGG MASON  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
... the sharemarket index has been 20%. Who would've thought term deposits could be over three times more risky than share dividends when it comes to income drawdown? Sure, equity prices are more volatile, but the point is how many retirees would appropriately ...

Van Eck lists gold miners ETF on ASX

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2015
... bullion to the price of gold," Van Eck Global Australia managing director, Arian Neiron, said. "As gold shares can pay dividends, gold equities provide income whereas holding bullion incurs storage costs." However, GDX and gold have in common a low correlation ...

High-risk pursuits may undermine super funds' solvency

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015

Asset allocation is over, investors chase returns

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
... rotation will be the "bondification" of equities, the favoring of companies with defensive features, including high dividends. "The key word is pragmatism," PGI chief executive Grant Forster told Financial Standard. "Investors are chasing returns rather ...

Insync with beer

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
... financial crisis was to occur again, Kotecha said AB InBev would be ideally placed. "[In the GFC] companies were slashing dividends and raising capital. AB Inbev wouldn't have to do it. They'd take advantage of the low share prices and possibly increase ...

Rice Warner debunks super myths

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015
... true for retirees who are prepared to live off their income and consume capital by taking profits occasionally. He said dividends and associated franking credits provide protection against inflation and longevity risks. Rice also explains myths around ...

ASX lower for fourth day

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2015
... year low of $1.15 per share after it announced $640 million in writedowns and impairments and said it would stop paying dividends. Meanwhile, Qube shares lost 16 cents, or six per cent, to $2.61 after the logistics and infrastructure company warned it ...

Buy-back boom driven by loose Fed policy

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2015
... their balance sheets. But according to Rieder, in recent years they have increasingly used debt for stock buybacks and dividends, thereby rewarding equity-holders at the expense of bondholders. "There is nothing wrong with stock buybacks and dividends ...

AB managed equities fund joins netwealth

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2015
... risk in falling equity markets, potential for long-term capital growth, and some income including franked Australian dividends. Part of AB's strategy aims to reduce volatility by identifying and investing in high-quality listed equity securities, which ...

ANZ enters fast growing ETF market

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2015
... High Yield Plus ETF (ZYAU), which "looks at total share buybacks of each ASX300 company over the last year and total dividends. With that combined figure we pick the top 40 yielding companies and weight them based on the yield," ANZ ETFS head of distribution ...