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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2011
... points. NEW YORK - Financial companies pushed stock indexes higher on Tuesday on signs that banks may soon raise their dividends. Bank of America Corp gained 4.7 per cent, the most of the 30 stocks that make up the Dow Jones industrial average, after ...

Hunter Hall launches two equity funds

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2011
... fund will invest in units of the Hunter Hall Global Ethical Trust (GET) but hedge away currency risk by reinvesting dividends into Australian dollars. Jack Lowenstein, deputy chief investment officer, Hunter Hall, said it wouldn't be for everyone but ...

Macq High Conviction predicts 2012 rally

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2011
... manager of the Macquarie High Conviction fund, said that while the market should see returns of 10 per cent including dividends thanks to solid earnings growth, it is too soon for a major rally. "For the ASX to hit 6,000 this year, all macro issues would ...

Year of the Rabbit, year of acquisitions: survey

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2011
... this year and expect many of these cashed-up businesses to grow through acquisitions and palm excess cash as higher dividends to shareholders, a survey found. The survey of Fidelity International analysts in the Asia Pacific region assessed some of the ...

Aus equities forecast to return 20pc

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 7 FEB 2011
... particularly from China. "With companies so cashed up and holding a lot of frank dividend credit, you'll see a lot of special dividends and share buybacks - and I allowed for that in my thoughts for the share markets." Matt Sherwood, head of investment ...

Global REITs to gain double-digits: INGIM

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 4 FEB 2011
Total returns for global real estate investment trusts (REITs) this year could be as high as 12 per cent with dividends yielding around 4 per cent. The healthiest dividend payouts are likely to come from the US, research from fund manager INGIM shows. ...

Westpac to launch more structured products for SMSFs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 1 FEB 2011
... payments. Once they've made the initial payment, they can immediately benefit from their direct share ownership, including dividends and franking credits. They can then use the dividends from the shares to pay down interest, which is added to the second ...

US manager charged with fraud

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JAN 2011
... for short periods of time, according to the SEC's complaint. They were invested to generate capital appreciation or dividends, depending on their goals. However, Nadel and his firms knew by 2007 or earlier that the market was not sufficiently liquid ...

Citi sees ASX200 at 5300 in 2011

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 6 DEC 2010
... watch and a "critical part of the outlook for markets and the outlook for the economic recovery in 2011." Increased dividends, share buybacks and M&A activity are some of the ways companies could choose to deploy their balance sheets, all of which would ...

Over Fifty becomes Centuria

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2010
... 27 per cent. Centuria also confirmed its FY11 outlook for underlying profit after tax of $7.3 million, with full year dividends forecast to increase by 20 per cent to 6 cents per share.