DIVIDENDS

Funds management

Some 40% of global companies managed to increase or initiate a dividend during the second quarter of 2020, despite the COVID-19 pandemic causing many firms to cancel divi...

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Funds management

Investors need to rethink their ideas towards investing for total return as the outlook for dividends remains troubled, according to Ophir Asset Management. ...

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Financial planning

National Australia Bank group chief executive Ross McEwan has confirmed the banking sector will be a less attractive sector for dividends in the aftermath of the COVID-19...

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Funds management

Earnings of Australian companies have taken a material hit during the COVID-19 pandemic, putting pressure on dividend yields but there are ways to improve this, according...

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Funds management

Lonsec has increased its allocation to the Talaria Global Equity fund in its retirement managed portfolios....

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Funds management

Dividends in the first quarter of 2020 were largely unaffected by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Janus Henderson, reaching a Q1 record of US $275.4 billion. ...

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Funds management

There are still opportunities for income investors despite the expected cuts in dividends, according to Epoch Investment Partners....

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Financial planning

New regulators’ policies combined with lower earnings across many sectors may have far-reaching implications for retirees as well as companies and investment managers, ac...

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Funds management

Typical income strategies based on bonds became harder to justify as interest rates ground lower and investors were forced up the risk curve, toward corporate bonds, high...

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Funds management

Dividends in the financial sector could be cut by 41% this year, according to UBS, with total ASX 200 dividends expected to fall by $21.7 billion....

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Funds management

Plato Investment Management has urged the big four banks to continue with their dividend payments by utilising their dividend re-investment plans to protect investors who...

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Funds management

Consensus earnings and dividend expectations globally remain too high and will be subject to significant downgrades in coming weeks, according to Janus Henderson....

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Funds management

Bailouts are there to save jobs and businesses and the COVID-19 pandemic is a health and solvency crisis and shareholders have to pay their bit, Munro Partners believes....

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Funds management

AMP Capital predicts ASX200 dividends will be cut by a third over the next 12 months, a larger cut to dividends than during the global financial crisis....

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Funds management

Investors should not panic and focus on the best opportunities which can still be found in blue-chip companies with a long history of paying dividends, according to Frank...

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