franking credits

More than half of the companies on the S&P/ASX 200 either fully pay or partially pay franked dividends. What are franked dividends and why do investors want to invest...

Welcome to another edition of Charts and Caffeine - our daily markets wrap featuring the best charts and reads from across Livewire's team of expert editors. Let's...

In less than 30 days we’ll cast our votes at the next Federal Election, to decide whether Anthony Albanese and the Australian Labor Party, or the incumbent Prime...

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...

Many Australian companies offer the allure of healthy dividend payments, ie, income, plus potential share-price growth. But that's not all. Australia's franking...

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...

Investors who ignore Afterpay (ASX: APT) and other listed financial technology firms bent on disrupting banks risk missing out on impressive returns. So said Munro...

Australian banks remain a staple of local investors, particularly those with a focus on income, and there are many good reasons for this. For one thing, there’s our...

Whether mobilising forces in a battle for franking credits or declaring “WAR” on LIC discounts, Geoff Wilson AO is also the mastermind and founder of Wilson Asset...

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...

Self-funded retirees and many other income investors continue to be stung by monetary policy decisions. However, taxation benefits in the form of franking credits...

The ALP is proposing a raft of tax changes that will negatively impact after tax outcomes for many Australian investors should they be enacted. Arguably the most...

From an economics perspective, the Federal election is shaping up as one to forget. Australia’s economic growth is currently running at less than our population...

Australia heads to the polls this year for a federal election, most likely on 11 or 18 May. While voting intentions tend to narrow and tilt toward the incumbent as...

Australia heads to the polls this year for a federal election, most likely on 11 or 18 May. While voting intentions tend to narrow and tilt toward the incumbent as...

The negative effects of ALP policies on housing, SMSFs and profit margins are already impacting certain sectors of the market, such as banks, residential property...

Labor’s proposed tax changes could result in investors experiencing a decline in income as many may be unable to redeem surplus franking credits. For such investors...

Forecast for shares income, including from the banks, remains solid. For the “glass half empty” thinkers, there is plenty of bad news to focus on in 2019 – the Trump...

In our previous paper entitled “Which superannuation funds may be affected by the ALP franking credit proposal” we found that members of many superannuation funds, not...