dividends

Funds management

Magellan has announced the development of lower cost investment alternative for retail investors, which will be a series of diversified investment strategies. ...

Financial planning

APRA tells banks to maintain dividends below 50% of earnings

Bank dividends could be cut after the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority told them to ‘maintain caution’ over 2020 dividend payments with the payout ratio maintai...

Funds management

Companies hang onto dividends despite pandemic worries

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...

Funds management

Dividend slash prompts focus on total return investing

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

Financial planning

Banking to be ‘less profitable’ amid COVID-19: NAB

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...

Funds management

Three ways to increase dividend income

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...

Funds management

Lonsec increases Talaria fund allocation

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

Funds management

Dividends see ‘temporary peak’ in Q1 but declines expected ahead

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. ...

Funds management

Look overseas for dividend opportunities: Epoch

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

Financial planning

New policies to shake up dividends in 2020

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...

Funds management

Bonds income strategies harder to justify

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...

Funds management

Dividend cuts to exceed $20 billion: UBS

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....

Funds management

Use re-investment plans to pay dividends: Plato

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...

Funds management

Global dividends under pressure but companies remain resilient

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

Funds management

‘Bailouts are not for shareholders’: Munro

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....