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iShares unveils four Aussie ETFs

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 NOV 2010
... S&P/ASX High Dividend which gives investors exposure to 50 large Australian companies with a particular focus on higher dividends, and finally there's the iShares S&P/ASX Small Ordinaries to track the S&P/ASX Small Ordinaries Index, an which represents ...

Better boring than bubble

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 9 NOV 2010
... opportunities, the greatest opportunity in small caps are the relatively dull, boring, cash generative, sleep-at-night and 'pay dividends' businesses which the market hasn't been really focused on for the last 6 to 12 months," he said. Proof that the ...

Platinum feels the force of term deposits

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2010
... benchmarked remains "encouraging" and that he is hopeful this will translate into higher fees and ultimately, higher dividends for shareholders. The company separately disclosed that its funds under management (FUM) rose by over $2 billion over the course ...

Westpac shines with $6.5bn full year profit

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 NOV 2010
... $1.39 per share - a payout ratio of 71 per cent. "We know the important contribution our shares, and particularly our dividends, make to the retirement savings of many Australians," chief executive Gail Kelly said. The result was lifted by a sharp decrease ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 NOV 2010
... longer term perspective they are still lower than they have been historically. "So they are good value, and with their dividends rising, the stocks are rising." ANZ was up 21 cents to $25.02, National Australia Bank had added 41 cents to $25.87, Commonwealth ...

No housing bubble: Fidelity

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2010
... than household income, and they are only looking at salaried income as opposed to other earnings including rents and dividends," she said. Adjusting for these factors, Costa said, gives a house price to income ratio of around 4.5 to 1 for Australia ...

SSgA hits $45m in 24 hours

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2010
... Dividend Yield ETF take-up was a strong sign investors are looking for investments that provided high and sustainable dividends. "We've been working on this strategy for some time and convinced ourselves that the MSCI benchmark and index they've produced ...

Premium Investors cuts cost, restructures

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 28 SEP 2010
... was" prior to the buy-back, according to the newsletter. Meanwhile, Collins said investors can expect fully franked dividends of 6c to 7.5 cents per annum during the medium term following the implemented changes. Correction: An earlier version of this ...

SSgA ETF targets high yields

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2010
... introduced the SPDR MSCI Australia Select High Dividend Yield ETF, which seeks to provide investors with high and sustainable dividends. Rob Goodlad, SSgA senior managing director for Australia, said key to this offering is independence, as the ETF is ...

Realindex tops $2bn in FUM

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 6 SEP 2010
... examples. Francis said Realindex uses fundamental measures of firm size, including cash flow, sales, book value and dividends to select stocks and weightings for its funds, as opposed to simply using the market cap weightings used by equity indices ...