Senior super fund officials call for end to tinkering and a bipartisan approach to super policy....
ASFA supports the ATO levying SMSFs to cover compliance costs but insists on transparency of process....
With constant regulatory change impacting on the superannuation sector, financial planners are finding it difficult to focus on clients’ retirement needs, writes Bela Moo...
Specialist barrister Noel Davis explains the ramifications of the latest AAT decision relating to excess contributions and why trustees, members and employers should all ...
Mike Taylor writes that if the Federal Government imposes changes to the superannuation tax regime in the May Budget, it may take an entire Parliamentary term before a Co...
The benefit of franking credits in an SMSF cannot be underestimated, especially when the fund is in pension phase, writes Graeme Colley. ...
This week’s APESB board meeting looms as a crucial moment in the APES 230 debate....
Daniel Butler and Nathan Papson note that changing an existing non-reversionary defined benefit pension to be reversionary may give rise to certain issues....
The Financial Services Council has cited the opposition of key Labor figures to reinforce its case for the Governnment to stop tinkering with super....
Banks are receiving numerous calls from customers anxious about the Government’s proposed changes to superannuation....
ASFA’s pre-Budget submission questions underlying Treasury assumptions being used to justify altering super taxes....
Coalition urges industry to help stop Government’s super tax changes before they occur because there are no guarantees post-Budget....
The Government has lowered the minimum amount required to enter its venture capital program to $5 million, among other changes. ...
Nicholas Ali describes the rules around SMSFs claiming the exempt current pension income where the trustees have not met the minimum pension payment standards. ...
The IPA has restated its intention to over-ride APES 230 while accountants remain concerned that the APESB is not moving on the issue....
This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...