Dividends are back in fashion, so how do you know the designers from the fakes – Russell paper

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Russell urges investors to look beyond yield this reporting season With Rio Tinto upping its payout to shareholders and JB Hi-Fi, Cochlear and OZ Minerals following suit this reporting season,

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Russell Research: Dividends are the new black

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Why the classics always come back in fashion Investing for growth has long been in vogue for Australian investors, and with recent periods of long term growth, it is easy

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Motorists need to watch Middle East jitters

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Weekly Petrol Price Petrol prices continue to tracking sideways. According to the Australian Institute of Petroleum, the national average Australian price of unleaded petrol rose by 0.3 cents a litre

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Profit season: Mixed, but earnings still growing

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Corporate profit season The general sense is that the profit-reporting season has so far proved very mixed. And the numbers back it up. Figures produced from Bloomberg show that there

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Zenith Rates FRM Sigma as Highly Recommended

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Zenith Investment Partners (Zenith) Head of Alternatives Research Daniel Liptak said that occasionally an investment opportunity presents itself that questions why no one has offered something similar before. The FRM

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SMSF sector set for further growth as trustees say they outperform large super funds, new SPAA / Russell research says

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Contribution cap limit has $15.1 billion impact Investments outside SMSFs are key to asset allocation SMSF trustees prefer partnership approach The Self-managed superfund Professionals Association of Australia (SPAA) and Russell

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BetaShares US Dollar ETF debuts as top 10 most traded ETF on ASX

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AUM more than doubled in second week of trading Median trade was A$15,000, indicating pent up demand from retail investors for access to U.S dollar exposure in a simple, transparent

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Retailers benefit as consumers continue to spend

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CBA Business Spending index The Commonwealth Bank Business Sales Indicator (BSI) eased yet again in trend terms in January, but it certainly wasn’t all bad news. In fact only a

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Korea and Australia Financial Investment Forum to increase investment

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The Australian Financial Markets Association (AFMA) and the Financial Services Council (FSC) of Australia today joined with the Korea Financial Investment Association (KOFIA) in signing an agreement to establish the

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Century to waive $1.3 million management fees

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Savings to directly reduce debt of Opus 21 Century Funds Management (Century) has announced that it will waive the first year of its management fees if it is successful in

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