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Super survey reveals need for intrafund advice

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2011
... who are disinterested in their superannuation and make them realise how paying attention to their super now will pay dividends in the future," Petrou said. "Your superannuation is likely to be the largest asset you will own outside of owning your own ...

REITS, cash, equities the safe bet

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011
... high with a potential downside risk to earnings," said Needham. Needham predicted that Australian equities including dividends would provide less than 3% inflation adjusted over seven years, although it was Australian REITS that were Ibbotson's pick. ...

Capital protected products shine in gloom

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
... holding is also protected from downside risk by put options. The client faces no margin call risk and continues to collect dividends and franking credits. At the end of the term they hand back shares that have fallen below the protected price, with no ...

LICs benefit from FOFA

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
... he said. "That has changed... so it's a much more even playing field for us." A rule change that allows LICs to pay dividends as long as the have the liquidity, and not just from profits has also made a difference, Robinson said. GMI trades about 75 ...

Super industry reviews carbon tax impact

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2011
... or are disadvantaged from the carbon tax," she said. "Particularly important is for SMSF trustees to be aware of any dividends and cashflow from these investments for any pension payments." Fiona Reynolds, chief executive of the Australian Institute ...

China-Gillard tug o' war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUL 2011
... achieved positive returns for fiscal year 2010/2011. The S&P/ASX 300 index rose by 7.3 per cent - 11.9 per cent including dividends -- over the past 12 months to 30 June 2011 despite the toll on confidence caused by uncertainties that include: the Greek ...

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 ...