FEDERAL BUDGET

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....

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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...

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Superannuation

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

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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....

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Superannuation

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

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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...

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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....

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Superannuation

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

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Superannuation

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

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Financial planning

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

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Superannuation

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

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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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Financial planning

As expected, the Government has limited its Budget support for the financial services regulators....

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Financial planning

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’...

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Financial planning

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...

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