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Dimensional turns to value stocks in emerging markets

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2009
... markets," said Crane. According to the firm, value stocks or companies that are priced low to fundamentals such as earnings, dividends, cash flow and book value, can provide higher returns than larger, higher priced growth stocks. Dimensional's research ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2009
... stocks still posted big gains for the week. Bank of America lost more than $US2 billion ($A2.17 billion) after preferred dividends in the third quarter. The loss was steeper than expected and stirred fears that struggling consumers won't be able to increase ...

HESTA pays managers after tax

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2009
... managers are traditionally measured on pre-tax returns, leading them to not value franking credits that are attached to dividends and to ignore timing decisions that would protect discounted capital gains. With super taxed at 15 per cent and the franking ...

Focus on dividend outcome: Insync

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2009
... income. Rather than focusing on the biggest and brightest international firms with fluctuating and unsustainably strong dividends, Kotecha prefers firms that would consistently generate dividends and in turn grow income. It could well prove to be a strategy ...

Fortitude to launch Aus equity income fund

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2009
... The new fund aims to outperform the S&PASX100 benchmark through capital appreciation, high yielding and fully-franked dividends and, more importantly, through 'premium yields' that come from option writing. Just like its existing fund, which focuses ...

Russell launches global infra fund

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2009
... is that it is an alternative to government bonds in terms of liability matching, yet they offer high income because dividends in the sector are more similar to property than other assets. Listed global infrastructure assets also have lower leverage on ...

Tax and dividend boost at OptiMix

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2009
... managers pursue alpha returns. TDOS is specifically designed to optimise the weights of stocks that pay tax effective dividends," said Emmanuel Calligeris, chief investment officer, Multi Strategies Group, ING Investment Management. Managers in the line-up ...

How to survive the next market outlier

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2009
... to return to its previous "normal state", this would still equate to an average annual return of 15.2 per cent, plus dividends. Dutton is responsible for investment strategy and management for Australia and New Zealand, where AXA oversees around $60 ...

Ways to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2009
... improve, prices still have some ways to go before the market becomes fully valued. Plus, stocks currently offer a yield on dividends of around 5.63 per cent. Although down from the 34-year high of 7.35 per cent, this is higher than the 2008 average dividend ...

Future lies in present

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2009
... politicians have to go for re-election, investment funds have to try and beat the market, businesses have to produce dividends for shareholders and Mister, Miss and Mrs. Jones want to upgrade to a Lamborghini. Such is the nature of the beast. Learn from ...