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Austock to list with $214m cap

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2007
... period last year. Because Austock is a registered Pooled Development Fund (PDF) which invests in emerging companies, dividends are not taxable in the hands of shareholders. PDFs also pay only 15 per cent company tax and no income or capital gains tax ...

Challenger FP model pays dividends

Eight months after a business restructure, Challenger Financial Planning chief executive Greg Kirk said the group's new business model has worked wonders. Only a couple of years ago Challenger's financial planning business was trailing behind its rivals. ...

Perpetual charity

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2007
... Tax Office (ATO). To ensure these organisations can apply for a refund on any imputation credits attached to franked dividends, the fund has a large allocation to Australian shares. "This means investors can increase their income by reclaiming from the ...

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 ...