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Sargon liquidators want to dig deeper

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020
... looking for extra funding to dig deeper into the company's transactions, potential claims and the possibility of a dividend payment to creditors. Wexted Advisors has asked Sargon's creditors, of which there are 23, to contact them by June 5 if ...

BlackRock iShares launches two ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020
iShares today listed two exchange traded funds on the ASX that invest in Australian corporate bonds. The iShares Yield Plus ETF (IYLD) tracks a customised Bloomberg index that measures the performance of the Australian corporate bond market after excluding ...

SMSFs to weather the storm

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
While hundreds of thousands of Australians remove tens of millions from their superannuation accounts, SMSFs are holding their own. The most recent superannuation statistics released by APRA show there was a decrease of 7.7% in total superannuation ...

Retirement funder adds two new executives

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2020
Household Capital has announced it has added two new roles to its executive team including chief operating operator and chief credit officer. Luke Rattigan has been appointed to the newly created role of chief operating officer, with a primary focus ...

Equities attractive in search for yield: Zenith

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2020
... their dividends," Zenith said. "As the price of Australian equities have fallen by a significant amount, the trailing dividend yield of Australian equities initially increased before readjusting." Zenith said over the last 15 years the grossed-up dividend ...

Chief economist update: V could still become W

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2020
... economic activity won't do company profitability any favours but instead lead to losses and, by extension, reduced dividend payouts and at worse, utter elimination of dividends altogether. Fast forward two (three) months hence... equity market investors ...

APRA urged to probe industry funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2020
... their fulfilment of the sole purpose test (such as allocating significant capital to ME Bank when it has never returned a dividend), conflicts of interest (such as heavy exposure to ISPT and IFM Investors) and low transparency (such as IFM Investors' ...

Banks urged to step up

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020
Reserve Bank of Australia governor Philip Lowe and APRA chair Wayne Byres have called on the big banks to support the Australian COVID-19 recovery, rather than their shareholders. Speaking during a FINSIA webinar, Lowe said over the past decade APRA ...

Small caps soar amid accelerated revolution

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
Although the last two months have been marked by increased volatility and disruption, small caps have largely outperformed. During March, small caps performed broadly in line with their larger counterparts, with the ASX Small Ordinaries Index dropping ...

Boom time for exchanges

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... to 67,500 million Yen. JPX's guidance for its EPS increased from 78.44 Yen per share to 88.71 Yen while the annual dividend forecast also increased from 48 Yen to 54 Yen after accounting for a 6 Yen increase in the year-end dividend from increased ...