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Payouts aren’t merely sensible, they’re desirable: by boosting subsequent earnings, they improve companies’ and thus investors’ returns.

Some investors don't care about the share price

How we narrowed the All Ords down to 21 companies with an above-average yield, growing dividends and a price-to-earnings of less than 20.

Greg Canavan from Fat Tail Investment Research shares a different take on the income question, via a contrarian and value-oriented lens.

How to access fully franked dividends whilst diversifying your portfolio with global equity investments

Late last year, we wrote about the opportunity some companies had to deploy their capital into investments they know best: their own shares. At the time, some...

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, perhaps one formed over millions of years under significant pressure, you’ll know that the coal market has had a dramatic...

According to Market Index, 19 companies on the ASX currently have a trailing dividend yield above 10%. Very attractive income, in anyone’s book. But income...

It’s dividend season and investors might be happily patting themselves on the back for their past decisions – or considering where to put their money so next year’s...

Inflation has become the big bad wolf for modern income investors, but it doesn’t need to be. Does it create extra challenges? Of course, but to be fair, all points of...

After a bumper six months, BHP (ASX:BHP) is awash with cash. And it will soon be rewarding its shareholders. In its recent results announcement, the big Australian...

With interest rates are at record lows, investors may be tempted to chase high dividend-yielding stocks to replenish lost income in their portfolios. However, chasing...

The explosion of COVID-19 cases in early 2020 saw economic uncertainty hit the markets. Volatility spiked and equity markets fell sharply – the S&P/ASX200 almost...

The phrase 'There's no such thing as bad publicity' is the notion that all mentions in the media aid a person's cause, even if they put them in a bad light, coined by...

In Five crucial facts the mainstream has ignored (23 April), I demonstrated that “Australian equities have entered an earnings depression – and the market has...

In Australia, citizens are embracing the new ‘COVID-normal,’ and this is synonymous with the economic recovery experienced across our largest sectors. The banks and...

As governments around the world continue to pump the bellows, with record stimulus payments a near-universal feature of economies everywhere, the rotation from Growth...

Income investors, many aged 65-years and over, were knocked for six last year as dividends dried up. Each of Australia’s big four banks either suspended or slashed...

It’s no mistake that Australian investors receive some of the highest dividends in the world. Our generous franking credit tax breaks go a long way toward explaining...

Australian investors love dividends. The topic of investment yield was a battleground issue in our most recent federal election, and it’s never far away from the minds...