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SuperEC, the e-commerce initiative to establish a common set of standards for the electronic processing of superannuation related information across fund managers and sup...

Financial planning

All beneficiaries of a discretionary trust who surrender their interest may now be subject to capital gains tax following the release of an Australian Tax Office (ATO) ru...

Financial planning

Australians are becoming increasingly uncertain about their financial preparations for retirement, the latest nationwide survey into consumer knowledge and attitudes towa...

Superannuation

This week, Ramani (SG) Venkatramani, the general manager of APRA’s diversified institutions division, will fly to a conference of worldwide pensions industry representati...

Financial planning

Accounting and financial planning group Investment Taxation Specialists (ITS) has hit the hustings in the final days of the election campaign in a last ditch attempt to g...

Financial planning

The Commonwealth Ombudsmen has released a report calling on the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) to supply more information to investors caught up in mass marketed tax mi...

Superannuation

The Financial Services sector would notice little immediate difference if the Australian Labor Party took office after November 10. Why? Because the ALP believes that the...

Financial planning

Financial services group Harts Australasia may have left the financial services industry reeling in the past week with news of its collapse, however, it appears that the ...

Financial planning

While the financial services industry has been pulling its collective hair out over the issues surrounding the alienation of personal services income (APSI), it appears o...

Financial planning

The founder and executive chairman of financial services group Harts Australasia, Steve Hart, faced the Brisbane Magistrates Court charged with 11 tax-related fraud offen...

Superannuation

Tax strategies linked to superannuation are growing in popularity but have also been identified by the Australian Tax Office as an area of concern. Rob Keavney questions ...

Financial planning

Wraps and master trusts have almost become commoditised, but TOM COLLINS says they should adopt new methods to offer better value to advisers and clients....

Superannuation

Former ACTU secretary Bill Kelty has backed member choice for superannuation funds putting his views at odds with most industry funds which have publicly campaigned for y...

Financial planning

Tom Collins reckons the Financial Services Reform Bill currently before parliament will make life easier for unscrupulous operators and tougher for the honest opertors. H...

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