SUPERANNUATION FUNDS

Superannuation

Investors are turning to their superannuation funds for help and direction as a third successive year of volatility and poor returns hits their livelihoods, with retirees...

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Superannuation

Investors are turning to their superannuation funds for help and direction as a third successive year of volatility and poor returns hits their livelihoods, with retirees...

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Superannuation

SMSF specialists call for ATO to review its ban on SMSF using limited recourse borrowing....

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Superannuation

ASFA warns that even SMSFs may be impacted by a draft ruling on superannuation income streams issued by the ATO....

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Financial planning

The Australian Taxation Office has been told its draft ruling on superannuation income streams has erred with common practice and legislative intent....

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Editorial

Australian superannuation fund returns have started the 2011/12 financial year in negative territory but, as Mike Taylor reports, most members have learned enough from th...

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Editorial

While it is clearly not high on the current Federal Government’s agenda, at some point it will need to revisit legislation covering the operation of superannuation funds ...

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Superannuation

Superannuation funds with heavy equity exposures have suffered most in the July and August market volatility....

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Superannuation

Accountants urge Government to get superannuation right, and then stop tinkering....

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Financial planning

The Government’s changes to the ECT regime add to the compliance burden, despite the ATO doing the heavy lifting. ...

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Superannuation

The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia celebrates the anniversary of the superannuation guarantee, with research suggesting the super savings pool helped Au...

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Financial planning

Former Astarra Asset Management investment manager Shawn Richard was on Friday sentenced to a total of 3 years and 9 months imprisonment with a minimum term of 2 years an...

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Financial planning

ASFA has sought higher levels of deductibility with respect to own occupation TPD obtained within superannuation....

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Financial planning

Former Astarra Asset Management investment manager Shawn Richard has today been jailed for two and a half years in the New South Wales Supreme Court....

Editorial

ASIC's guidance document on scalable advice should be welcomed for one thing, the manner in which it proposes to remove the class relief granted to superannuation fund tr...

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