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APRA-regulated fund or SMSF: It's all the same

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
Having a highly paid team of investment professionals doesn't mean much when a Black Swan event hits. Since the outbreak of COVID-19 there has been a huge amount of focus on industry super funds. From concerns over liquidity issues, impacts of the ...

Westpac AUSTRAC bill continues to grow

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2020
Westpac today announced expected increased costs associated with AUSTRAC proceedings of $1.03 billion. On top of that, the bank has increased provisions for customer refunds, repayments and litigation by $260 million. It's also had to write down ...

COVID-19 damage to stretch several quarters: Natixis IM

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2020
Despite global market rebounds, Natixis Investment Managers believes the economic damage of the COVID-19 pandemic will stretch several quarters beyond the containment of the virus. There are now nearly two million confirmed cases of the coronavirus ...

Big four urged to pay up dividends

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2020
... manager has urged the big four banks to continue paying dividends, propping up APRA's suggestion to use underwritten dividend reinvestment plans (DRPs) to meet the needs of the nation's retirees. Plato Investment Management said underwritten DRPs would ...

What's next for income-focused funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... Australia. However, this year is a different story across the world. The European Central Bank has asked banks to defer dividend payouts until October, while the UK has seen nearly half of its biggest listed companies scrap dividends, according to Link. ...

Sargon Capital to be liquidated

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... Sargon Capital. Wexted has previously indicated that only Taiping, as the secured creditor, may be able to receive a dividend from Sargon winding up. Unsecured creditors are unlikely to get anything back at the group level. While the extent of claims ...

Big banks cop a beating

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2020
... appropriately limit executive cash bonuses, mindful of the current challenging environment," the letter said. APRA said dividend payments should be offset to the extent possible through the use of dividend reinvestment plans and other capital management ...

Not safe to launch: APRA

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2020
... including NAB who said it would "take APRA's guidance into account" when considering the bank's 2020 interim dividend settings as part of the 2020 half year results process. APRA's warnings come as ratings agency Fitch downgrades the Issuer ...

Not at the bottom, yet: Research

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2020
... recent days, and now sits at 1.5%, excluding dividends," he pointed out. "Along with these muted return expectations, the dividend yield that retail investors expect to receive has fallen to 3% from what had been an incredibly persistent 4% over the ...

Chief economist update: A whole new world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2020
... late-1980s and the disintegration of the USSR - basically the end of communism and the Cold War - as providing a peace dividend for all the world to profit from, as necessary spending on defense and espionage became unnecessary and instead put to more ...