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Government help needed to remove innovation obstacles

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2016
... effective policies to stimulate new investment shouldn't come at the expense of existing policies. In contrast he described dividend imputation as a policy that supports the "current investment landscape." Merlicek said moves by the Federal Government ...

Australian dividend growth outpaces global peers

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2016
... companies grew 14.8% in 2015, comfortably ahead of the 9.9% rise in global dividends. According to the Henderson Global Dividend Index, global dividends reached $1.15 trillion in 2015, an increase of 9.9% once currency impacts are taken into account. ...

Magellan average monthly inflows hit $214m

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2016
... management grow by 44% to $38.8 billion and net profit increase by 41% to $109.3 million, corresponding to an interim dividend up 38% to 51.3c per share. According to Magellan chief executive Hamish Douglass, a major factor in this result is the flows ...

BetaShares goes global with third managed risk product

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2016
... suggest." The risk management strategy used by WRLD is the same as the ones used in the year-old BetaShares Australian Dividend Harvester Fund and the recently launched BetaShares Managed Risk Australian Share Fund. It seeks to actively reduce volatility ...

Active managers need new measurement

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2016
... growth funds generated higher capital gains relative to the benchmark via short-term trading, offsetting their lower dividend yields. By contrast, value funds needed to manage the timing of trades carefully in order to avoid losses versus the benchmark ...

WAM Capital profit triples

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2016
... profit while holding a cash weighting of 31.5% over the year." The company will pay an increased fully franked interim dividend of 7.25 cents per share, representing an annualised dividend yield of 6.7% on yesterday's closing price. Chief executive Kate ...

Treasury revises cost of super tax concessions

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2016
... super in similar assets, they would be likely to attract concessions associated with capital gains and the benefits of dividend imputation, which also involve a cost to revenue," Vamos said. "The more accurate method for estimating tax expenditures confirms ...

Martin Currie argues for multi-assets in retirement

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2016
Active equity specialist Martin Currie proposes Australians should invest in a retirement income portfolio that is multi-asset and focused purely on Australian assets. The proposal arises from Martin Currie's latest white paper - Rethinking 'safe' investments ...

Investors can expect "reasonable" year despite gloom

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2016
... people not wanting to hold shares but the benefit is that the recent sell-off has removed excess valuations and improved dividend yields," Stammer said. "I expect share market returns to be high single digits including dividends but it will be a very ...

Demographic darlings and disasters revealed

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2016
... improving health and decreasing infant mortality rates mean more people in the work force resulting in a demographic dividend for the economy. However, falling birth rates and lengthening life expectancies in developed countries - most pronounced in ...