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2016 FEDERAL BUDGET

Superannuation

Assistant Treasurer, Kelly O'Dwyer, has opened Super Review's Future of Super summit pointing to the positives in the Government super Budget changes. ...

Editorial

The Government appears to have upset some rusted-on Liberal voters with its Budget changes to superannuation but it remains to be seen whether it will actually matter on ...

Financial planning

Financial planners have registered in droves to the FPA roadshows amid changes to professional education standards, superannuation, and retirement planning....

Editorial

The Federal Government has lost sight of the long-run Budget benefit of encouraging retirement incomes self-sufficiency by lowering the concessional super contribution ca...

Financial planning

A survey of financial planners has revealed an overwhelmingly negative response to the Federal Budget changes....

Superannuation

The Government has both given and taken away from the super industry with a lower concessional contribution cap but a substantial restoration of the LISC for a Low Incom...

Financial planning

The Financial Services has given the Federal Budget a mixed reaction, welcoming some changes and condemning others as misdirected....

Financial planning

The Federal Budget will deliver key changes to the Transition to Retirement (TTR) settings....

Financial planning

ASIC chairman, Greg Medcraft has received his wish with increased funding for the regulator to “combat misconduct in the financial services industry”....

Superannuation

Upper income earners face almost certain reductions in their superannuation tax concessions in tonight’s Budget with greater emphasis on women and lower income earners....

Financial planning

Industry Super Australia chief executive, David Whiteley, has called for a re-targeting of superannuation tax concessions by ending the skew to upper income earners....

Funds management

Australia is facing a deficit problem rather than debt, and Governments are trying to conceal the fact that the prosperity flowing from the resources boom is over....

Superannuation

Investors and advisers are seeking tax effective structures to supplement super as proposed tax changes could see reduced retirement savings, according to Centuria Life....

Financial planning

The Federal Treasurer, Scott Morrison has indicated the Government may direct additional Budget funding to ASIC to assist it in investigating the conduct of the major ban...

Superannuation

The active member test for SMSFs is an unnecessary source of red tape, the SMSF Association believes....

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