Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 4731 - 4740 of 11513 results for "DIV"

Macquarie Wrap adds Vanguard SMAs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2018
Vanguard's range of diversified managed accounts strategies are now available via Macquarie's Wrap platform. Targeting the growing number of financial advisers adopting managed accounts, Vanguard ETFs will predominantly be used to implement the asset ...

Equity Trustees net profit up 28pct, execs get bonuses

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2018
Equity Trustees' top executives took home the highest possible short-term incentives, as the company swelled net profits by 28%. It paid its five top executives and the managing director about 99% of the maximum short-term opportunity awarded to ...

Charter Hall acquires $1.6bn property fund manager

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2018
Australian property giant Charter Hall plans to pay $205 million in cash to acquire a fellow ASX-listed property fund manager with $1.6 billion under management. Charter Hall, a group which manages $23 billion, has announced plans to acquire Folkestone ...

Link fund admin chief departs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2018
The chief executive of Link Group's fund administration business has left the company. Link confirmed that Suzanne Holden tendered her resignation after eight years with the administrator. Holden was appointed to lead the fund administration division ...

Government introduces financial literacy strategy

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2018
The Federal Government launched an initiative to empower Australians with financial literacy and help them take control of their finances. ASIC, together with Revenue and Financial Services Minister Kelly O'Dwyer, unveiled the National Financial Capability ...

Foreign owners take over life insurance: KPMG

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2018
Foreign companies continue to gain the lion's share of Australia's life insurance industry, with the recent sale of CommInsure and OnePath set to boost foreign ownership from less than half to 66%, KPMG research shows. According to the Life ...

YBR rejects 'opportunistic' takeover bid

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2018
Yellow Brick Road has rejected a takeover bid claiming the offer price was too low and "opportunistic." Mercantile OFM (a wholly owned subsidiary of ASX-listed Mercantile Investment Company) yesterday submitted an off-market takeover bid to ASIC to ...

VC firm launches new credit fund

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2018
A $330 million Australian venture capital firm partnered with an Israeli venture lender to launch a $100 million dedicated credit fund. OneVentures has partnered with Viola Credit - a subsidiary of $3 billion Israeli technology investment group, Viola ...

HUB24 lifts targets

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2018
HUB24 has lifted its revenue targets for the next three years, as it its platform and advice licensee swelled their revenues in FY18. It is now expecting to hit $19-$23 billion in funds under advice in by FY21, as opposed to its last year's forecast ...

LIT serves up junk bonds to SMSFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2018
A new listed investment trust is offering SMSF investors an opportunity to invest in high-yield bonds, with an annual net distribution north of 5%. The Neuberger Berman Global Corporate Income Trust will hold about 300 high-yield securities, with the ...