SMSF ESSENTIALS

Superannuation

Financial advisers need to be careful in dealing with pension commencement dates, according to superannuation specialist Michael Hallinan. ...

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Superannuation

TAL has upgraded its insurance offering in the superannuation market, including making its Superlink Stand Alone Total and Permanent Disability (TPD) offering available t...

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Superannuation

SMSF representative bodies will be included in a forum being convened in an effort to create a common approach to superannuation policy in Australia. ...

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Superannuation

Sequencing risk can have a catastrophic impact on a SMSF, according to Michael E. Drew, professor of finance at Griffith University and partner at Drew, Walk & Co. ...

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Superannuation

Specialist financial services administration provider, Praemium has started a beta trial for a new SMSF compliance product....

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Superannuation

Recent legislative change has cast a shadow over whether reversionary pensions are actually all that important, writes Aaron Dunn. ...

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Superannuation

Australia should emulate France in introducing a "floating retirement age", according to the Combined Superannuants and Pensioners Association. ...

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Superannuation

A number of important legislative changes for the self-managed super fund (SMSF) sector were not implemented before Parliament rose, according to Peter Burgess, head of p...

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Superannuation

The traditional superannuation balanced fund, with its 70/30 allocation to growth and defensive assets, is limiting investors and failing to deliver appropriate investmen...

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Superannuation

Small businesses will have recourse to the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal as well as other external disputes resolution services under changes announced by the Federa...

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Superannuation

Investment in retirement is different and needs to be treated as such, according to former Cooper Review chairman Jeremy Cooper. ...

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Superannuation

SPAA argues that this year’s ATO compliance focus makes getting appropriate advice even more essential....

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Superannuation

Term deposits may continue to be a popular investment option for Australian investors but according to CANSTAR, the current low interest rate environment is making it dif...

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Superannuation

SMSF investors are getting younger, according to new data contained in a study undertaken via Macquarie Bank and the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia....

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Superannuation

SMSFs with strategic exposures to shares and property would likely have done better in the 2012/13 financial year, according to the latest assessment from research house ...

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