BUDGET 2021

Tools & guides

This year’s Federal Budget brought in numerous changes to superannuation including making contributions and managing retirement income streams, writes Tim Howard and Neil...

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Superannuation

Market-linked lifetime products which have passed their use-by date can be progressively dismantled thanks to changes announced in the Budget....

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has pointed to the winding up of FASEA and a cap on Australian Securities and Investments Commission spending as being positives from t...

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Superannuation

The Budget could have made more impactful changes to the retirement incomes system to help those at risk of poverty in retirement, according to the Actuaries Institute. ...

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Policy & Regulation

The Financial Services Council and the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia have welcomed the target changes to superannuation and the Government’s long-await...

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Superannuation

Self-managed superannuation funds will find themselves on equal footing with APRA-regulated funds when members move offshore....

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Superannuation

The Government has delivered on its pre-Budget announcement around the $450 superannuation guarantee threshold and removal of the work test for older Australians....

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Superannuation

The Government has made it official by stating in the Budget that early release superannuation will not be allowed with respect to domestic and family violence....

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