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Retiring 'comfortably may require 3 income building blocks: Legg Mason

PROMOTED BY LEGG MASON  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
... sharemarket - 54% during the GFC - and this ignores the fast recovery of shares and a franking boost. Furthermore, if you strip away share price volatility, the biggest decline in the income from the sharemarket index has been 20%. Who would've thought ...

Australian stock market to open lower

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2015
The Australian stock market looks set to open lower, following falls on Wall Street overnight. At 0654 AEST on Tuesday, the June share price index futures contract was down 25 points at 5,477. US stocks were lower, led by large declines in technology ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
The big banks and BHP Billiton have dragged the share market lower. Investors are being cautious around high yield stocks including the big four banks, Telstra and supermarket owners Wesfarmers and Woolworths, Bell Direct equities analyst Julia Lee ...

Falling AUD offsets dividend growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
Australia had the fastest dividend growth in Asia Pacific for the year to March 2015, but the falling Australian dollar made the increase modest relative to its counterparts in the region, the Henderson Global Dividend Index found. Australia made up ...

Don't overlook culture and discipline: MFS

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
A strong corporate culture and the discipline to soft-close funds before they are hurt by their size are too often overlooked by fund managers, according to MFS Investment management global equity chief investment officer Kevin Beatty. The Boston-based ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2015
The share market is weaker as investors seem to interpret Australia's latest inflation data as reducing the chances of a May interest rate cut. Underlying inflation, which strips out the effects of volatile price movements, indicated an annual rate ...

Australian dividend growth leads Asia Pacific

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2015
Dividends paid out by Australian companies grew solidly in 2014, but international investors in local companies actually saw an 8.8% decline in distributions as a result of the falling Australian dollar, according to the latest global dividend survey ...

market wrap PM

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014
... Markets chief market analyst Ric Spooner said. "The ASX 200 will be swimming against the tide of dividend losses that will strip around 20 points from the index this morning," Mr Spooner said. "The biggest dividend impact will come from ANZ and NAB which ...

Super squabble beyond the joke: Taxpayers Australia

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014
... fees in superannuation and boost member returns by opening up the default superannuation market to competition. "I want to strip away the debate and show the Fair Work Commission default superannuation process for what it really is - a distribution channel ...

ISA proposes new restrictions on retail super

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
... superannuation that allows only unions and employer organisations to determine which funds are selected for awards. "When you strip away the rhetoric, the industry funds are simply protecting their conflicted and closed shop model," he said.