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The profitability of Australia's big banks has declined markedly over the last decade and the coronavirus pandemic has highlighted just how perilous their financial state is. With less money being made, dividends have dropped or been deferred, so ... More

An Australian investment manager has urged the big four banks to continue paying dividends, propping up APRA's suggestion to use underwritten dividend reinvestment plans (DRPs) to meet the needs of the nation's retirees. Plato Investment Management ... More

The big four banks are on the back foot following an order from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) for dividend reductions, while global credit ratings Fitch downgraded their long-term issuer default rating from AA+ to A-. APRA says ... More

Another week, another raft of government announcements. Here are some of the questions you've been asking this week. You can catch up on last week's Q&A here . 1. Who is eligible for the JobKeeper payments? If you have been stood down or retrenched ... More

Income from dividend payments is one of the key motivating factors for share investors, particularly in Australia. Many long-term investors rely on ongoing dividends from companies and perceive those that pay them regularly as offering greater value ... More

Aussie dividend stocks are no longer a sure bet. In the past, a dividend-producing stock held for an extended period would match or outperform the market, regardless of the business cycle. "That's no longer the case," says Uday Cheruvu, portfolio ... More

At a time when investors are hunting for income, you need to make sure you are in the right dividend-paying sectors on the sharemarket. Watch out if you want income from health care or technology shares. You won't receive much in the way of dividends. ... More

Westpac will pay its interim dividend nine days earlier on June 24 in a strategy that appears to be designed to get around Labor's promised changes to the franking tax policy. A Labor government, if elected , will introduce the changes from July 1 this ... More

It's a quandary every retiree faces: how to get a higher yield without taking on too much risk. Interest rates are in the doldrums and unlikely to budge any time soon while some of the sharemarket's darlings, like Telstra, attractive for its dividend ... More

Simply reinvesting distributions to benefit from compounding may not be the best strategy Sixteen years ago when I invested $10,000 in an Australian small companies fund, I was asked if I wanted to have the dividends and capital gains sent to me or ... More