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Super should not be compulsory: Cox

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2009
... taken steps to address the imbalance of concessions. This includes marginally winding back the superannuation salary sacrifice limits and temporarily reducing the co-contribution scheme, along with a boost to age pension payments. Following this year's ...

Simple advice at GESB

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2009
... guidance over the phone on maximising members' opportunities to make contributions, through co-contributions and salary sacrifice. Fabian Ross, head of wealth management at GESB, said in the statement that, "GESB is one of the first super providers to ...

Streamline super concessions to boost contributions

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2009
... their supplementary submission to the Henry Tax Review. Central to their proposals is that the tangled web of salary sacrifice arrangements, multi-faceted super tax deductions, spouse super tax offsets and co-contributions could be replaced with a single ...

FPA extends free online advice service

FPA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
... FPA's Financial Planning Week. Volunteer advisers are on hand to answer basic finance questions ranging from salary sacrifice to CGT and superannnuation. But Jo-Anne Bloch, FPA chief executive, said that the association is extending the service until ...

Super changes hit retirees

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2009
... first time in their working careers they are in a position to begin increasing their super contributions through salary sacrifice and by making additional personal non tax deductible super contributions to fund their retirement. "Unfortunately with changes ...

Super concession cuts were overdue

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
... ahead," he said. Oliver was commenting on budget measures that included marginally winding back the superannuation salary sacrifice limits and temporarily reducing the co-contribution scheme. Senator Nick Sherry, minister for corporate law and superannuation ...

AMIST offers fee-for-service advice

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2009
... access a tailored "full financial planning service" which is a step above basic advice such as those pertaining to salary sacrifice and budgeting, he said. But AMIST is not done with its financial planning strategy yet. The fund is looking to appoint ...

Top 10 budget quotes

... concessional contribution caps, ASFA research found this measure will impact less than 4 per cent of people who salary sacrifice into super. "This means that the arrangements for the vast majority of employees using salary sacrificing will not change." ...

Super escapes budget knives

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
... a statement by ASFA last night that said the new measure will only impact less than 4 per cent of people who salary sacrifice into super. Indeed the new limits are being implicitly welcomed by industry commentators as it will encourage fund members to ...

Govt continues to target high income HHs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
... reported that only 50,000 Australians contribute more than $5,000 above their required SG level. Reintroducing salary sacrifice limits for high income households will consequently have only minor electoral consequences for a government that according ...