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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2010
... commodity outlook and it's really underpinning a lot of the market." He said Alumina's decision to return to paying dividends, along with engineer Bradken producing a "good result" were positive signs of the health of the mining sector. "Returning to ...

REIT review shows signs of stability

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2009
... equity-like cash flow and placing more emphasis on rental cash flows. Gearing has also lowered to more appropriate levels and dividends are better aligned with underlying free cash flow. The AMP Capital Listed Property Trust fund's rating remained stable ...

TOWER wins key mandates

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2009
TOWER Australia Group caps the year with major insurance wins, dividends up 15 per cent and new business up 54 per cent. The group also saw life inforce premium up 15 per cent to $784 million for the year to September thanks to its indiviudal life sales. ...

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 ...