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Dividends ripe for the picking

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2020
... addition, consumer staple stocks like Woolworths and Wesfarmers performed well throughout the pandemic and are expected to generate good yields in the next year. Hamson said the reporting season presented better than expected results for dividend income ...

Former adviser faces fraud charges

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2020
... "Those funds had been invested by SMSF clients for the purpose of participating in property development activities to generate a return," ASIC said. The matter has been adjourned until September 25, ASIC said.

Challenges on the horizon for CountPlus

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2020
CountPlus recorded an increase of net profit after tax to $5.95 million in FY20 from $3.68 million ahead of future challenges to its Count Financial business. The accounting firm increased its cash to $21.11 million, up from $8.5 million in the preceding ...

Advisers more bearish than clients

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2020
... to expand their product set and prioritise high quality asset managers," Peker said. It comes as advisers struggle to generate income for their retiree clients in the low interest rate environment, according to 66% of those surveyed. Increasingly, mitigating ...

Impact investing in healthcare: American Century

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2020
... sector. The Health Care Impact Equity strategy enables institutional investors to invest in companies with the potential to generate returns while benefiting society through its funding to healthcare as well as the Stowers Institute for Medical Research. ...

CFA Institute call for feedback on new standard

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2020
... are expected to benefit from long-term macro or structural ESG-related trends. Impact objective is noted as seeking to generate a positive, measurable social or environmental impact alongside a financial return. The last feature is proxy voting, engagement ...

Global fund manager enters Australian market

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2020
... Promethos's president John Linnehan said: "We are seeing an uptick in the global emergence of deploying capital to generate an impact while also earning a return. Promethos's ESG investment experience is uniquely positioned to amplify the results ...

VanEck to launch four new ETFs

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2020
... Markets (ex-Australia) Health Care index, which aims to invest in stocks that deliver growth at a reasonable price to generate long-term shareholder value. VanEck managing director and head of Asia Pacific Arian Neiron said the new ETF will seek to capture ...

Northern Trust launches ESG capability

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2020
... various investment managers and stakeholders around the environmental impact of their portfolio, and will also be able to generate data and analytics to add to their annual disclosures. The information would support client in determining if they are ...

Perpetual profits plummet

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2020
Investment giant Perpetual has seen its net profit after tax fall 29% year on year, blaming an increase in outflows from its investments business as well as the challenging conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic for the decline. Revenue for the full year ...