Equity Income

Investing in retirement is a unique proposition. Retirees need to generate a sufficient income stream for their daily life, but still need to factor in growth to...

The Martin Currie Australian Equity Income Fund was born out of necessity – and love. The fund, originally designed for retirees, was established because of a gap in...

Select risks include: information risk, management risk, risks related to reliance on third parties, and risks related to the sale of investments. A new macro era...

As interest rates have marched steadily towards zero, investors who rely on income have been forced further out along the risk curve in order to generate sufficient...

While the 2021 dividend story was all about recovery for Australia’s income investors, the 2022 outlook is one of stability. That’s the reassuring message from Dr Don...

Recent Morningstar research has found that a portfolio of higher dividend-paying shares meaningfully outperforms over the long term. In fact, over a 45-year period,...

2022 has begun with very encouraging signs for global income investors. Plato’s latest quarterly global dividend report shows that during the first three months of the...

Last time I wrote about the current challenge for investors in the face of the potential combination of rising interest rates and falling growth, especially as so...

BHP is a long-time favourite among SMSF investors and it's easy to see why. The mining giant delivered a strong and growing dividend and distributes a valuable amount...

The Commonwealth Bank (ASX: CBA) and Woolworths (ASX: WOW) have now completed their off-market buybacks. CBA’s $6 billion transaction, completed October 4, enabled it...

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...

It was expected to be a sound reporting season for dividend investors, but so far it’s one that has exceeded the expectations of many. For those invested in...

There is a lot of noise in the financial press (meme stocks, crypto, central bank policy, etc.) and so it’s hard to really know what to focus on. In times like...

As we predicted, Commonwealth Bank (ASX: CBA) has today announced an off-market buy-back, with the size – at $6 billion - slightly exceeding our expectation of $5...

It was Paul Kelly who famously sang that "from little things, big things grow". And that sure has been true of our waistlines during lockdowns. On the other hand,...

As many Australians spend hours in the coming weeks and months preparing tax returns, for retirees it may be a good time to reassess the tax effectiveness of share...

Savers have long recognised the need to balance income and capital, but recently this has proven difficult as yields of all asset classes have fallen to very low...

The Western Australian (“WA”) economy continues to go from strength to strength as per the latest release of Labour Force data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics...

From morning to night, a procession of politicians lining up to front the media has ensured none of us could miss the fact a federal budget was delivered last week....

In a matter of months, we’ve experienced a remarkable turn-around when it comes to Australian equity income and right now it’s safe to say dividends are back. After a...