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Financial planning

Businesses see confidence boost following election

There was a sharp lift in business confidence in the second quarter of 2019, according to the quarterly NAB survey, as investors adjusted to the victory of the business-f...

Policy & Regulation

Govt urged to treat advice commissions like franking credits

If the Government applied the same logic to life/risk and grandfathered commissions as it did to refundable franking credits during the election, then it would be support...

Editorial

Learning the value of speaking with one voice

Financial advisers have been badly served by the disagreements and divisions of past years and should encourage their representative organisations to speak with one voice...

Expert Analysis

How to give clients’ super balances a post-election boost

Making sure clients are doing everything they can to boost their super is always a good idea, Laura Wright believes, and the lead-up to the end of the financial year is a...

Funds management

LICs boosted by Coalition win

A Labor win could have posed a significant speed-bump for listed investment companies, according to Zenith Investment Partners....

Superannuation

SMSF sector welcomes super policy stability, no dividend reform

The SMSF sector has unsurprisingly welcomed Labor’s election loss, after an extensive campaign against the party’s dividend proposal that the SMSF Association claimed aim...

SMSF

New SMSF measures expected in parliament

Now it has returned to Government, the Coalition can once again focus on the self-managed super fund measures it introduced to Parliament before the election was called, ...

Superannuation

Govt pushes to pass new super reforms

The Coalition Government has called on the Senate to pass its Protecting Your Super Package and Member Outcomes legislation. ...

Policy & Regulation

Fair redundancy, retirement scheme payments on horizon

The Coalition Government is reforming genuine redundancy and early retirement scheme payments as part of its promise to deliver lower taxes....

Policy & Regulation

Foreign nationals forced to sell $380 million of illegal real estate

The Coalition has forced the sale of $380 million worth of real state that was illegally acquired by foreign nationals. ...

Policy & Regulation

Govt to double employee share scheme limit

The Federal Government is proposing to increase the value limit of products in employee share schemes that can be offered in a 12-month period from $5,000 to $10,000 per ...

Superannuation

Frydenberg rules out SG change

The Federal Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg has made clear the Government will opt for retirement income certainty rather than the superannuation guarantee recommendations of ...