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Investors must look to dividend yield over growth

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2016
... government bonds and bank deposits - are unlikely to provide the yields necessary to maintain spending power. In this context, we believe from our research that income-oriented investors will benefit from exposure to higher dividend stocks, even at the ...

Global investment redrawn by technology

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2016
... split the challenge down into three steps: the perennial issue of strong management; to consider stocks within a global context; and revamping the concept of valuation. "I'm an accountant by training, and I can say that most of our accounting standards ...

Super industry CEO joins IIRC board

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 27 SEP 2016
... reporting is concise communication about how an organisation's strategy, governance, performance and prospects - in the context of its external environment - lead to the creation of value in the short, medium and long term. Davidson has more than 20 ...

PROFILE: Qantas Super chief executive Michael Clancy

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2016
... to put myself in the shoes of a trustee director and what issues I think they would be focused on. My objective in that context is often to anticipate what the issues will be and ask, 'have we as a management team addressed those issues before trustees ...

XTBs and SMAs a good match

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2016
... balanced portfolio, providing capital stability and regular income. "We are living in a low interest rate world, and in this context fixed income is arguably more important than ever. A 1% variation in income matters much more in an environment of near-deflation ...

Labor eyes super for start-up boost

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2016
... Conference in Adelaide, Shadow Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation, Jim Chalmers, made the comments in the context of the worst start to a year on record for the share market and considerable challenges for the Australian economy. "More ...

Jobs at risk from second machine age

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2016
... hub Stone & Chalk, according to Macdonald, show the big institutions are interested in what is emerging not just in the context of their own business, but for the investment potential as well. "Due to regulatory and return-on-capital hurdles at the big ...

Now is the time to accommodate the sellers

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2016
... markets, we buy businesses. Right now we can buy businesses being offered to us at valuations that we think are low in the context of their long-term prospects," Budden said. Patching in via the company's impressive new conferencing system from his Singapore ...

Be alert to recession amid growth headwinds: PIMCO

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015
... bit above 7% of GDP in 2012 and at the end of the third quarter in 2015 it had fallen back to around 5%. "To put this in context, its long-run average prior to the boom was a bit above 1%," he said. Through the Asia crisis to the global financial crisis ...

iSelect nixes Providence takeover bid

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2015
... iSelect's statement said. The statement added, "Should future proposals be received, the board will review them in the context of value maximisation for iSelect shareholders." At the same time, iSelect is implementing an on-market 12-month share buyback ...