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Depending on what you read, you may be mistaken that investing for income in ASX-listed shares is well and truly over. Not so, suggests Scott Kelly, Portfolio Manager of the DNR Capital Australian Equities Income Fund. The Brisbane-based specialist Australian equity manager simply suggests investors need to focus on those with the potential to pay…
The SEEK Limited (ASX: SEK) share price will be on watch this morning after the employment business announced it was selling down its stake of Zhaopin. Zhaopin is a Chinese employment business that SEEK owned a major stake in. What did SEEK announce about Zhaopin? SEEK plans to sell down its stake in the Chinese business from…
ASX finishes flat, CSL (ASX:CSL), Wesfarmers (ASX:WES) delivers again, Fortescue (ASX:FMG) delivers record dividend The ASX200 (ASX:XJO) finished flat for the day, but with growing dispersion in underlying company performance. Treasury Wine (ASX:TWE) lead the way, jumping 17.5%, but it was healthcare company CSL (ASX:CSL) that contributed most with the consumer discretionary (+0.6%) and the healthcare (+2.0%) the few winners. Unemployment…
Westpac has announced a new specialist businesses division and has appointed Jason Yetton as chief executive of the division. The specialist business division has been created to simplify the Australian and New Zealand banking businesses. This will include wealth platforms, superannuation and retirement products, investment, general and life insurance, auto finance and Westpac Pacific. Yetton…
Investors hoping that the big banks will restore their dividends sooner rather than later are likely to be disappointed, as the earnings pressure on the banking sector will continue into the 2020/21 financial year. The banks’ March-half earnings (December-half in Commonwealth Bank’s case) fell by an average of 33 per cent, driven by big increases…
Here’s why we’ve avoided bank shares for over 5 years…
Significantly higher impairment charges will be a feature of the upcoming interim reporting season for three of the big banks and will continue to rise next financial year. Macquarie Securities has issued a report on the banking sector, saying: “We now incorporate in our forecasts a credit cycle with impairment charges peaking at around 50…