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Government debt on its way to $606bn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... $10 billion and the $4 billion increase in annual superannuation fund taxes. This will be supplemented by non-taxation dividend revenue growing from $29 billion in 2016-17 to $37 billion by 2020-21 and a range of new levies that are expected to raise ...

BTFG drags Westpac performance

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2017
... on the prior year. The group reported an after-tax profit of $3.9 billion, up 6% year-on-year and will pay an interim dividend of 94 cents per ordinary share fully franked.

Australia can benefit from Brexit and Trump

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 1 MAY 2017
... whether the Australian taxation system is biased against outbound investment, in particular the effect of the current dividend imputation system. This should be properly examined as part of the Productivity Commission's paper on Australia's trade policy," ...

Martin Currie SMA debuts on HUB24

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 MAY 2017
A Legg Mason Martin Currie separately managed account (SMA) has debuted on the HUB24 platform. The Legg Mason Martin Currie Equity Income Strategy addresses retiree longevity risk and avoids the need to draw down on capital through retirement, according ...

Fund manager appoints new COO

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2017
... HHY Fund, Aurora Global Income Trust, Aurora Property Buy-Write Income Trust, Aurora Absolute Return Fund and Aurora Dividend Income Trust. As above, Aurora and its former owner Keybridge Capital are currently in the process of disputing allegations ...

RARE fund receives Lonsec tick

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2017
... current investing environment, infrastructure companies are ideally placed to provide investors with attractive and stable dividend yields. "The Fund offers investors both income and real diversification from other asset classes," Hurst said. "In the ...

Morningstar downgrades Franklin Templeton parent rating

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2017
Morningstar has downgraded its parent pillar assessment for Franklin Templeton US funds from positive to neutral following concerns about "massive outflows" and an "investment culture given to complacency," according to senior analyst Alec Lucas. The ...

Of war, rate hikes and balance sheets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2017
... code, anything can happen. Trump has recently sent an armada of US naval ships to the seas off North Korea. The peace dividend the world enjoyed since the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989 could go in reverse. There's also the trade war. Trump's actions ...

Hunter Hall LIC chair ousted

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 7 APR 2017
... value for their investment or remaining invested in the company with improved corporate governance, capital management, dividend payments and shareholder engagement." At the meeting yesterday, then-HHV chair Paul Jensen questioned the independence of ...

Plato fund oversubscription heralds income appetite

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2017
... And that's aided by the fact that the fastest-growing cohort in Australia is people over 65, who are looking at a 7% dividend yield versus a 1.5% cash rate. The difference is stark."