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Star managers launch fund-of-funds in support of children's charities

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014
... offers investors the benefits of the listed investment company structure, with the objective of providing fully franked dividends." Future Generation Investment Fund Limited is raising money through a capital raising of up to $200 million. Investors ...

Investors Mutual gets in on LIC act

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2014
... quality attributes of strong competitive advantage, recurring earnings, capable management and can grow their earnings and dividends over time." Last week Manny Pohl's boutique Australian equity house, ECP Asset Management (ECPAM), released the prospectus ...

Manny Pohl issues prospectus for new retail LIC

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014
... with the LIC aiming to exceed a benchmark return of 8%pa by combining capital growth and income through fully franked dividends. Dr Pohl has an enviable record in the small and mid-cap segment during a 30-year investment career. He is best known for ...

UniSuper still fighting Westfield change

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... into WRT because WRT was a lowly-geared landlord, earning steadily growing rental streams which converted into growing dividends. Scentre would have much higher levels of gearing and higher risk associated with property development management fees. The ...

FEATURE: Bulldozing the infrastructure roadblocks

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... incentive," adding: "When the government looks at asset sales, one of the things they're factoring in is the loss of dividends over time. And that loss of dividend is not necessarily always compensated by the purchase price paid, because governments ...

Van Eyk adds SMAs to research platform

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2014
... underlying investments," he said. "Unlike managed funds, there are no embedded unrealised capital gains but rather all dividends, franking credits and any capital gains or losses flow through to the end investor." While the take up of SMAs by Australian ...

Industry stalwart Tucker takes stake in Westoz

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2014
... attractiveness of LIC structures. Westoz has a strong track record of generating investment returns and fully A ranked dividends for LIC shareholders."

Suncorp reacts to "deteriorating" situation in life risk

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2014
... write-down of intangible assets that will affect the company's net profit after tax for the 2014 financial year, but not its dividends. The life insurance business told the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) that it has revised "claims and lapse assumptions" ...

Second PM Capital LIC now trading on ASX

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014
... total return of 188.9%, since its inception in 2008, which compares against the MSCI Asia (ex Japan) Equity Index (Net Dividends Reinvested, AUD) total return of 16.6% (as at 30 April 2014).

Australian ETF industry passes $11 billion milestone

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
... investors to develop tax-effective portfolios. For example, an investor wanting to target shares that pay fully franked dividends to receive franking credits can select an ETF specifically designed for this purpose to add to their portfolio. This can ...