FEDERAL BUDGET

Policy & Regulation

CPA Australia has not only backed industry funds on urging the Government to use the Budget to allow early release superannuation top-ups but has also backed funding a th...

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Superannuation

Industry Super Australia has suggested that the Australian Taxation Office delegate superannuation funds and trade unions to pursue superannuation guarantee debts from re...

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Funds management

Politics has not managed to sway the All Ordinaries Index, as it continued to rise despite the Federal Budget announcement and the RBA’s interest rates discussion, accord...

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Superannuation

The SMSF Association has welcomed the Government’s proposed changes regarding calculating ECPI and increasing the age where the work test for making contributions to supe...

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has welcomed last night’s Federal Budget, but cautioned that using ASIC’s industry funding model to pay for implementing Royal Commissi...

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Superannuation

A positive budget outlook should spur important long-term policy direction, according to the Actuaries Institute....

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Policy & Regulation

With the Government last night announcing the Federal Budget is in a $7.1 billion surplus, Martin Currie’s chief investment officer, Reece Birtles, expects consumer spend...

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Policy & Regulation

The financial services industry has delivered the Budget a muted response in circumstances where the Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, had announced most of the Government’s fi...

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Policy & Regulation

The Government has committed to paying unpaid Financial Ombudsman Service determinations impacting consumers and small businesses up to $30.7 million....

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Policy & Regulation

The Government has confirmed its funding promises with respect to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission and the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority....

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Policy & Regulation

The Federal Government has delivered what it is describing as the largest personal income tax since the Howard Government....

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Superannuation

The Federal Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg has unveiled key tweaks to superannuation policy – allowing those aged 65 and 66 to make voluntary contributions without the work t...

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Superannuation

The Federal Government should use the upcoming federal budget to improve protections for super fund members, according to Dixon Advisory....

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Financial planning

People receiving financial advice are going to be better placed to deal with any move by a future Labor Government to remove refundable franking credits, according to the...

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Superannuation

New analysis from self-managed superannuation funds administrator Class has revealed the 2016 Budget changes sliced 25 per cent of the tax-free assets available to self-m...

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