FEDERAL BUDGET

Life/Risk

New measures introduced in the 2013 Budget will have an important flow-on effect on insurance in super, writes David Glen. ...

Superannuation

The Shadow Assistant Treasurer, Senator Mathias Cormann, says a Coalition Government would review concessional caps, subject to Budget capability....

Superannuation

There might be some important tax planning that needs to be done between now and 30 June, according to SMSF Academy's Aaron Dunn. ...

Financial planning

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....

Editorial

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...

Superannuation

Super contribution cap welcomed for older workers but slug on higher earners is disincentive and adds complexity to system...

Financial planning

Praemium has announced that its separately managed account (SMA) platform has been signed up to the Government’s Significant Investor Visa (SIV) scheme....

Superannuation

SPAA welcomes abandonment of complex policy around superannuation balances of less than $500,000....

Superannuation

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...

Superannuation

MLC's Peter Hogan says that while the Budget hasn't specifically targeted SMSFs, there are likely to be a number of indirect impacts....

Superannuation

A largely unheralded technical change looks certain to impact more upper income earners on super....

Superannuation

Deloitte warns that taxing higher super balances may cost more to implement than it ever delivers....

Financial planning

The inclusion of specific funding for the Tax Practitioners Board sees the FPA writing to the Government for another extension....

Superannuation

The Federal Budget limits fiddling with superannuation settings to the changes it announced in April....

Financial planning

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...

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