Dividends

Insight

More dividends not something to bank on

Clancy Yeates A big reason bank stocks have been such a smash hit with investors this year is their great dividends.

Insight: dividends

Clancy Yeates In an otherwise gloomy climate for investing, dividends are giving shareholders a ray of hope.

David Potts

Let them eat dividends: Reporting season 2012

David Potts Although a slew of companies have already downgraded their profit hopes, market experts are pointing out that returns are higher, even if the outlook remains uncertain.

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...

Why diversifying pays dividends

David Potts Banks' bonds and shares represent attractive options - but they're not the only high-yielding game in town.

HOT STOCK

Supermarket third wheel worth a punt

Brian Han Metcash is currently grappling with a number of adverse factors affecting its core food and grocery business.

Intelligent Investor

When it comes to shares, don't be a sheep

Richard Livingston 2013 has been a great year for share investors, particularly those loaded up on high-yield shares.

Time to bale out of the banks

Nathan Bell In this environment, look for stocks that should provide satisfactory returns over the long-term.

The Chartist

Rising telco shows signs of sustaining growth

Rod Myer Canny investors are finding options in the telco market. One is M2, which has returned shareholders 84.3 per cent in the past year.

John Collett

Popping claims of a banking bubble

John Collett The ''great bank bubble of 2013'' should be taken about as seriously as the great Australian house price bubble before it.

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GOLD SLIDE

Golden oldies sticking to their beliefs

David Potts If the bullion boom is definitely over, it is playing out in some very strange ways.

Case Study: Don't panic!

David Potts He has $1.5million of shares stacked into his DIY super fund and says the secret to sharemarket investing is to never panic.

BLOOMING

Japaneasing is just the start

Barbara Drury Japan's muscular new approach to monetary policy has breathed new life into its moribund sharemarket.

Getting Started

Dollar leads us on a merry chase

David Potts Whoever claims to know where the dollar is going is either a charlatan or delusional. Unless it's me, in which case being wrong will do.

BANKS & MINES

Dig deep for a decent return

David Potts With so little on offer from a bank or bond, it's no wonder the sharemarket is rising. The surprise is where it's occurring. Or rather, not occurring.