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Colley resigns from SMSF Association

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2016
... position as director of technical and professional standards. SMSF Association chief executive and managing director Andrea Slattery said Colley has been an important member of the association's technical and policy team for the past four years, and ...

SMSFA calls for concessional caps flexibility

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2016
... "use it or lose it" approach to reflect modern work patterns and income streams. Commenting on the submission, Andrea Slattery, chief executive officer and managing director of the SMSF Association said flexibility is needed to reduce red-tape and stop ...

Industry reacts to super objective

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2016
... very positive step for building and maintaining confidence in the system." SMSF Association managing director Andrea Slattery said she had been a "strong advocate of this important policy initiative, having argued its importance to the FSI and then endorsing ...

Reducing concessional contribution caps would hurt: SMSFA

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2016
SMSF Association chief executive Andrea Slattery said any political move to reduce the ability for people to make pre-tax superannuation contributions would unfairly hurt generations X and Y "who have not had the opportunity to build their superannuation ...

Men more confident than women in managing SMSFs

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2016
... sufficient knowledge to take sole responsibility for managing their investments. SMSF Association chief executive Andrea Slattery said: "When life events such as a relationship breakdown occurs, this research shows how women in particular need extra ...

Super lifetime cap could increase budget costs: Budget Office

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2015
... looks after people in their retirement." Commenting on superannuation taxation, SMSF Association chief executive Andrea Slattery said: "Voluntary contributions are supported by tax incentives to encourage people to sacrifice their income today for savings ...

SMSFs welcome no dumping of LRBAs

DARREN SNYDER  |  SUNDAY, 8 NOV 2015
... does not consider there is sufficient data to justify any policy intervention," SMSF Association chief executive Andrea Slattery said. "The government does recommend the monitoring of LRBAs by the Council of Financial Regulators and the ATO to review ...

SMSFs and infrastructure a good investment

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2015
... Association said it would be "opportune" to remove any road blocks for SMSF investment. SMSF Association chief executive Andrea Slattery said although infrastructure is largely attractive to institutional investors because of scale or "high dollar price ...

Aussie pension policy needs careful adjustment: IMF

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2015
... a "better informed public policy debate about our retirement income system." SMSF Association chief executive Andrea Slattery said the association believes that the large estimates of the revenue forgone to government due to the super tax concessions ...

SMSF Association farewells super shadow minister

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2015
... said his contribution, both in government and opposition, was valuable. SMSF Association chief executive officer Andrea Slattery said Ripoll always had a constructive outlook on policy issues and was prepared to entertain different points of view. Slattery ...