After reaching record highs in February, optimism about the future of the economy has slumped following the May Federal Budget, according to a survey released by Allianz....
Matt Drennan writes that Australian investors are having to process often contradictory data as they seek to find their way through the investment maze, but that one fact...
Super contribution cap welcomed for older workers but slug on higher earners is disincentive and adds complexity to system...
Praemium has announced that its separately managed account (SMA) platform has been signed up to the Government’s Significant Investor Visa (SIV) scheme....
SPAA welcomes abandonment of complex policy around superannuation balances of less than $500,000....
SPAA has urged the Coalition not to defer the Labor Government's planned increase in the superannuation guarantee if it wins government at the election scheduled for 15 S...
MLC's Peter Hogan says that while the Budget hasn't specifically targeted SMSFs, there are likely to be a number of indirect impacts....
A largely unheralded technical change looks certain to impact more upper income earners on super....
Deloitte warns that taxing higher super balances may cost more to implement than it ever delivers....
The inclusion of specific funding for the Tax Practitioners Board sees the FPA writing to the Government for another extension....
The Federal Budget limits fiddling with superannuation settings to the changes it announced in April....
The Federal Budget has receive only a lukewarm response from the financial services industry despite the Government limiting its changes to superannuation to those announ...
As expected, the Government has limited its Budget support for the financial services regulators....
The Government has sought to use the Federal Budget to close off what it describes as a tax loophole that has allowed investors to indulge in so-called ‘dividend washing’...
In a move that was flagged ahead of the Budget and will please some sections of the financial services industry, the Government has moved to make deferred lifetime annuit...
So shareholders lose a dividend plus have seen the erosion of value. Qantas decides to clawback remuneration from Alan ...
This is why I left my last position. There was no interest in giving the client quality time, it was all about bumping ...
So the Hayne Royal Commission has left us with this. What a sad day for the financial planning industry. Clearly most ...