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Trust Company benefiting from global flows

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011
... investment markets. Therefore, he said, balancing the necessary investment in new technologies with growing shareholder dividends was a particularly difficult act. Meanwhile, the Guardian Trust has supported 60 staff members to qualify as authorised ...

Mason Stevens launches leveraged product

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2011
... Stevens. Timed to coincide with the end of the financial year, Mason Stevens hopes that investors will be attracted to the dividends and franking credits on offer, as well as possible tax deductions on pre-payed annual interest. The instalments, arranged ...

It's all good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2011
... you bought at last Friday's S&P 500 close, you'll get an 8.9 per cent return on GS' forecast - and we're not counting dividends yet. Try and get that by investing in cash. In Europe, nothing beats printing the prospect of a Greek default in the headlines. ...

Financial services feel cloud benefit

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2011
... the infrastructure investment that had yielded the best returns in the last year. Low-latency trading has also reaped dividends with 33 per cent saying that was the best ROI generator, while complex event processing got 23 per cent of the vote. The survey ...

Alpha aims to lure planners with flexi gearing

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2011
... seven-year units and the five-year instalments both have an annual cap of 115 per cent with annual cash payments based on dividends, which are risk managed and rising by 0.25 per cent each year from a starting point of 3.5 per cent. The instalments have ...

FPA urge Treasury to revise legis

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2011
... platforms, which means they can be effectively product neutral and accept any products and there are some efficiency dividends for the sake of the industry for independent dealer groups and to stop dealer groups becoming product providers or manufactures ...

May day mayday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
... estimates. And I bet no one told you that, last night Macy's earnings report topped sales forecast and it raised its dividends nor that of Intel also boosting its dividend. No siree! That wouldn't fit in the story. The oil slide that took US equities ...

Budget 2011: minor investors cut short

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
... children under the age of 18, will no longer be able to access the LITO to reduce tax payable on unearned income such as dividends, interest and rent. This measure will not impact income earned by minors from work, unearned income of minors who are orphans ...

CFS tilts at emerging market returns

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2011
... ETFs, the Realindex Emerging Markets Fund will screen potential companies for value parameters such as cash flow, sales dividends and book value. Realindex calls the system the Fundamental Index method. Andrew Francis, chief executive of Realindex, said ...

SMSF trustees hit pension payment woe

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
... assets. "They can still have their allocation to shares," he said. "But we might tweak it to go for shares that pay good dividends such as Telstra or the banks." Hutton said trustees needed to understand the different levels of liquidity in fixed interest ...