SUPERANNUATION INDUSTRY
Superannuation
The time has come for a total rethink about how investors are looked after when there is a 'Trio Capital', according to SPAA's Peter Burgess....
Superannuation
The average pension account has exceeded $200,000 for the first time across the superannuation industry, according to data collected by research centre SuperRatings. ...
Superannuation
The benefits associated with utilising a self-managed super fund come with legal responsibilities and getting it wrong can be criminal, warns Matthew McKee....
Superannuation
The SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia has welcomed an Australian Taxation Office ruling clarifying the status of borrowing arrangements around single assets....
Superannuation
The Treasury has invited consultation on its proposal to provide merging APRA-regulated superannuation funds with the option to roll over tax losses to the receiving enti...
Superannuation
One of the headline announcements in the 2012-13 Federal Budget affecting SMSFs was regarding contribution caps. Dan Butler and Nathan Papson explore this announcement, a...
Superannuation
Industry super funds move to provide more transparency around remuneration ahead of Government-imposed obligations....
Superannuation
The Government has deferred the start date of the higher concessional contributions cap by two years from the originally intended start date of July 1, to July 1, 2014....
Superannuation
Towers Watson warns the Government on a Budget which injects more complexity into superannuation....
Superannuation
It doesn’t come as a surprise that some SMSF investors are tempted by overseas property investments. However, there are a number of compliance traps they must navigate, a...
Superannuation
Self-managed superannuation was the clear winner of 2011, with healthy sector growth and satisfactory investment returns. However, as 2012 kicks off, SMSFs must turn thei...
Superannuation
The Federal Treasurer, Wayne Swan, is set to release the details of the superannuation changes foreshadowed for inclusion in the Federal Budget....
Tools & guides
How is the ‘bring forward rule’ triggered, and what happens when the $450,000 cap is only partially used at or around the time a client turns 65? Colonial First State's t...
Editorial
If, as is being widely speculated, the Federal Government uses the Federal Budget to once again alter the tax setting around Australia’s superannuation system, the ALP wi...
Superannuation
Government warned that the costs of tinkering with superannuation could far outweigh the benefits....
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