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Yeah you're right RH, looked at the ARG chart. As I said my memory may be off, I must have had them at the time in the mid $3's as opposed to mid $4's like I thought earlier (the year is right as I was still in high school). Though the chart is a good example of a long term increase in value...

The figures do look good RH. Sounds like you're looking at investing along similar lines to what I am. The difference for me (at the moment anyway) is I'm choosing shares with higher yields as until this GFC is 'more over' I'm still expecting slower growth rates in business, so to compensate...

You've mentioned ETF's a couple times. The ETF's that I've checked out in the past have all got pretty ordinary yields. If you are borrowing to buy these, especially at 9%+ ML rates, then you'll need them to achieve a pretty high growth, just to break even on your margin interest. I...

Yes, the new shares will appear in your ComSec account the day or so after the dividend payment date.

I should add, the yields above are not necessarily accurate at today's prices. I just grabbed the effective yields off my spreadsheet, but you can easily look up the current figures using your ComSec account.

OK I'll give it a bash, but obviously don't take my word for it and do your own research blah blah :D Write downs is when the value of the property the REIT holds are declining. So this has been widespread over the last couple years as commercial properties have been falling in price. The...

There's quite a few that will give you that yield at the moment - GOZ, IIF, LEP spring to mind. Not really what you're asking, but personally they're not my cup of tea at the moment. There is generally no franking, so it brings down the effective yield, whilst there are plenty of other good...