DIVIDENDS

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....

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...

Funds management

Commonwealth Bank of Australia has retained its spot as one of the world’s biggest dividend payers, although it has fallen from 15th place in 2018 to 20th last year. ...

Funds management

While global dividends rose to new record in 2019, Australia had a difficult year with dividends falling 3.3%....

Funds management

Global dividends were on the rise in Q3 despite a marked global slowdown, according to the Janus Henderson Global Dividend Index....

Financial planning

The latest earnings season was the ‘weakest for many years’ with many areas of the S&P ASX 300 looking overly expensive, according to State Street....

Financial planning

ClearView has announced the removal of its financial advice segment from embedded value calculations as a part of a broader resetting of its business in 2H FY19....

Financial planning

Retirees should review their income-generating strategies in light of the Reserve Bank of Australia’s second rate cut as it will mean they receive less income from their ...

Funds management

Companies with the highest dividend yield can offer poor value for risk taken when compared to the market, according to Ausbil....

Financial planning

Dividends across developed markets saw a rise in the first quarter of the calendar year, according to research by Plato Investment Management....

Policy & Regulation

Another survey, this time by the Australian Foundation Investment Company, has unsurprisingly found that many investors are deeply concerned by Labor’s proposed franking ...

Funds management

Australian investors remain unaware that total dividends rose close to eight per cent, in dollar terms, from 2017, Plato Investment Management warns....

Superannuation

Treating self-managed superannuation funds differently to industry funds with respect to franking credits is un-Australian, according to financial services academic, Prof...

Funds management

Australian dividends were the weakest in the developed world with payouts falling 2.2 per cent, according to Janus Henderson....

Policy & Regulation

Nearly half of the respondents in a survey of over 1,400 investors by Plato Investment Management expect Labor’s proposed franking dividend reform to make them more relia...

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