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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 ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 SEP 2006
... billion in 2005-06 largely as a result of short-term interest rates locally, in the US and in Europe. Payment of deferred dividends for 2004-05 from government authorities such as Australia Post and Telstra amounted to about $300 million taking the windfall ...

Tricom makes IMAs admin-free for planners

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2006
... their clients. "There are no re-balancing or custody fees at all, even though it is a custody service taking care of dividends and corporate actions. All the client pays is brokerage on their trades, but still only at wholesale rates," Parkes said. "This ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2006
... institutional dealer Ric Klusman said there was plenty of money flowing through the market with takeover activity and dividends. He said dividends paid out recently by majors like BHP Billiton, Woolworths and Toll returned $US2 billion to the market. ...

Hunter Hall shares the wealth with staff

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 AUG 2006
... is successful and stays together, and if markets do well, substantial growth in our funds under management, profits, dividends and share price will occur." The equity sharing plan will not be dilutionary to current shareholders, with the 10 per cent ...

In dividends we trust: AQR

... briefing with his thoughts on market behaviour and concluded that when it comes to making money, companies that pay dividends rule. Cliff Asness, former Goldman, Sachs & Co quantitative research guru, is the founding and managing principal of AQR Capital ...