FEDERAL BUDGET

Financial planning

Measure provides certainty to international investors that they will not be taxed on capital gains arising out of most passive investments made by Australian managed fund...

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Financial planning

Changes to salary sacrifice and co-contribution arrangements to provide $4.2 billion in savings, with Wayne Swan winding back some of the Howard Government's 'better supe...

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Financial planning

The response to Wayne Swan's 2009 Federal Budget has been mixed, with various financial services bodies choosing to view the super changes in different lights, ranging fr...

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Financial planning

Under the Rudd Government's changes pensioners will have to wait longer to become eligible for payments, but while these will be more generous than the existing provision...

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Superannuation

A senior Queensland academic has warned that tonight's Budget could prove highly regressive to superannuation....

Financial planning

ASFA hoping most funds will be providing access to financial advice by 2014....

Financial planning

The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees has acknowledged that the generous measures contained in the former Howard Government's 'better super' initiatives may...

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Financial planning

System has 'collapsed under its own weight'....

Financial planning

Australian National Audit Office reveals what bureaucrats wanted....

Financial planning

JIM MINTO is urging the Government not to forget the life insurance industry in its proposed review of Australia’s taxation system....

Policy & Regulation

Cut to the deduction rate for new investments in capital protected loan products kill sales....

People & Products

Benefits to fund competitiveness extend beyond LPTs....

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Financial planning

Budget has done little to mitigate broader economic challenges....

Financial planning

Changes to tax law will affect many....

Policy & Regulation

Clients face changes to tax status....

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