Dividends
Good dividends key to recovery
Fund Pick Are the days of cash as the first-choice investment of many risk-adverse investors numbered? With interest rates on their way down, you would think the cash yields on the big banks and stocks such as...
Dividends can pay off
I Can Do That The strategy: to buy shares for income.
Why diversifying pays dividends
David Potts Banks' bonds and shares represent attractive options - but they're not the only high-yielding game in town.
Dividends: the game's changed
Martin Roth Income investors will have to revise their thinking.
Safe haven stocks for rocky times
The news couldn't be worse. Continuing woes in the euro zone, weak US economic data and concerns about weaker growth in China have left Australian investors with a bad case of the jitters.
Stay cool; learn from the master
Nathan Bell In 1963, American Express, the world's largest credit-card company, was involved in a huge financial scandal.
Hot stock: ANZ
Hot Stock What's new? ANZ is beating its own drum these days with independent announcements on interest rates and a stronger Asian strategy than its peers.
Hot Stock: Telstra
Hot Stock What's new? No share buyback is in the offing but with up to $3 billion of excess free cash flow during the next few years, Telstra shareholders are swimming in dividends.
Hot stock: Breville Group
Hot Stock What's new? Thank goodness for MasterChef and every other cooking program on television. Every kitchen needs gadgets and Breville has more cooking gadgets than you can shake a spatula at.
Flight to safety
Barbara Drury In the new financial world order of low returns and high risk, the chorus of voices urging Australians to cool their love affair with shares and embrace the quiet charm of bonds has been growing...
Take steps to avoid bad moves
Annette Sampson We've all been tempted by them. Enticing investments that seem to make perfect sense at the time but end up leaving us disillusioned and out of pocket.
Ray of hope for Sunland investors
Matthew Kidman One area advisable to stay away from in the market is property in south-east Queensland. Bank of Queensland investors had a rude awakening earlier this week about the woes in the sunshine state.
Solidly built for a strong future
Penny Pryor Construction company Seymour Whyte is one firm that enjoyed a solid earnings season.
Best way up
John Collett Australian share prices are up more than 5 per cent this year and, who knows, it may be the start of a sustained recovery.
Why the miners have fallen into a pit
David Potts The resources boom might be ramping up but the market is moving on, writes David Potts.
The direct road to profit
David Potts Leaving money in the bank never made anybody rich, though no doubt it's handy once you get there. Yes, I know term deposits have served a treat; they're government-guaranteed up to $250,000 and the 6...
Hot stock: David Jones
Hot Stock What's new? The wind has certainly been taken out of the sales at David Jones. The glamorous department store retailer has been becalmed by a chastened customer base that is less frivolous and more...
Quality companies deliver more over long term
Annette Sampson Shares too risky? At the moment, that depends greatly on who you're talking to. If you're the sort of person who breaks into a cold sweat at the latest news report about concerns Greece won't meet...
Mums and dads stocks fare better
John Collett Australian share prices, including dividends, may be down 7 per cent over the past year to February 29 but the good news is that most small shareholders have done better than that.
