dividends

What does ex-dividend mean? How to ensure you receive your dividends
What does it means when a share goes ex-dividend? Learn the important dates of a dividend, ex-divided, record date, payable date and ensure you receive your dividends.

What Are Shares Dividends?
Dividends are the distributions that are paid using profits companies made during the year - it is like a reward to investors who have chosen correctly.

Dividend Imputation System & Franking Credits Explained - Calculations
The dividend imputation system allows investors who have been paid a dividend to take a personal tax credit (franking credit) since the company has already paid tax (30%) on this dividend.

What Shares Should I Buy?
Although you have likely gained some knowledge about the process to buy and sell shares, here are some publicly traded companies in the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) to get you going.

Trading the ASX 200 Index: ETFs, CFDs, Futures and Options
The S&P/ASX 200 Index represents the top 200 companies in Australia. How do I buy or short a large basket of 200 stocks in an efficient manner?

Wesfarmers (WES) vs Woolworths (WOW)
In another exciting round of publicly traded companies dueling it out – which of WES or WOW will come out on top?

High Dividend Stocks
The process of picking high yielding dividend stocks is not nearly as simple as grabbing the one with the highest yield. Certain stocks have higher dividends than others. What types of stocks would these be? Here are example of quality stocks with high dividends.

ANZ vs CBA vs NAB vs WBC
Is now a fine time to invest in banking shares? If so, which of ANZ, CBA, NAB, WBC is well positioned fundamentally?