Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 671 - 680 of 749 results for "dividends"

The upside of carnage

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2007
... year-end number still seems reasonable, and would represent another double-digit year for equities, counting the effects of dividends." AMP Capital's head of inversment strategy, Shane Oliver agrees, desciribing the current correction as "just noise." ...

CBA launches new instalment product

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2007
... access to the local index without annual resets or margin calls, he said. Investors also get access to any ordinary dividends, franking credits (subject to individual circumstances) and capital growth for the life of the instalments. "Instalments continue ...

Economic round-up: RBA thumbs-up

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2007
... Edwards, said in a paper written for CEDA that a large part of our deficit is attributable to net payments on interest and dividends on offshore debt and accounts for 80 per cent of Australia's current account deficit. Dr Edwards also noted that during ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2007
... also were keeping the local bourse buoyant. "The super money is coming in looking for a home, and the takeovers and dividends are also fuelling our strength. This money has to find a home and property's doing nothing at the moment." The outlook for the ...

Online investing in its prime: Macquarie

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAY 2007
... of up to 95 per cent, as well as the ability to go long or short. As such, investors could claim franking credits on dividends and to receive capital gains tax discount treatment for positions held for greater than 12 months. Unlike CFDs, the platform ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2007
... said the gains could continue. "It's pretty robust. There's still lots of money swashing around coming from buybacks, dividends and takeovers, but it is a little bit mixed, and isn't terribly consistent in terms of where the weaknesses are," Mrs Macdonald ...

Demography is destiny: IGR

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2007
... population ageing is Australia's biggest policy challenge, incorporating its imperatives into Government policy can pay big dividends later on. Costello said the IGR has already been enormously influential in setting government policy because it has ...

Investors want cash from companies

NICK OLIVER  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2007
... Survey 53 per cent of investors would prefer companies to prioritise returning cash to shareholders via share buybacks, dividends or cash acquisitions instead of using the funds for capital spending, retiring debt or topping up pension funds. This is ...

Manage risks not returns

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2006
... their new wealth weighted indices, Hsu asked "what is a big company? Companies with the biggest cash flows, biggest dividends, biggest sales?" Hsu said this reflects modern portfolio directions to separate alpha from beta but in more creative yet cost ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2006
... LONDON - Britain's FTSE 100 index turned sharply lower, reversing earlier gains as some heavyweights lost the right to dividends and crude oil prices crashed. The FTSE 100 closed at 6,160.3 points, down 42.3. FRANKFURT - The DAX index ended at 6,476.13 ...