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Raiding super can worsen housing affordability: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2024
... for the deposit on a median-priced house if they withdrew and used only their super. ASFA said the analysis shows early access to super would not solve the barrier-to-entry challenge of insufficient housing deposits for first-home buyers, adding that ...

AustralianSuper's move to boost productivity by up to 30%

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2024
... AustralianSuper announced it would be one of 600 companies globally to participate in the Copilot for Microsoft 365 Early Access Program (EAP). AustralianSuper's chief technology officer Mike Backeberg said the move to introduce artificial intelligence ...

Coalition's super for housing scheme slammed

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2024
... about $195,000 less in today's dollars. A Mercer study of its Global Pension Index found countries that allow early access to retirement savings for housing did not have higher rates of home ownership than Australia. The study also found the common ...

Blackwattle Partners launches global fund

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2024
... publicly in July for all retail investors, the firm will be running a foundation offer over the next three months for early access at reduced fees for select clients. According to Skinner, the fund will be constrained to a maximum funds under management ...

ASIC vigilant on bad SMSF advice

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2024
... SMSF sector more than ever. This comes to light at a time when the ATO and ASIC remain vigilant against the illegal early access of superannuation that is especially rampant within the SMSF sector. Most SMSFs do the right thing, often with the assistance ...

ATO cracks down on illegal early SMSF access

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2024
The Australian Taxation Office is cracking down on illegal early access to SMSF money, particularly targeting new entrants to the sector who are the main culprits. New analysis from the tax office released at the SMSF Association National Conference ...

Objective of super bill lands in parliament

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 NOV 2023
... public. However, the objective will not alter the current responsibilities of superannuation trustees, nor rules for early access to super on compassionate grounds. Rest chief executive Vicki Doyle said the fund's nearly two million members, over a million ...

Betashares launches investment platform, targets retail investors

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 OCT 2023
... and educational resources, empowering them to make informed decisions for wealth creation. The platform opens for early access today with its initial features; however, Betashares plans to "significantly expand" its functionality with an array of additional ...

ATO keeping tabs on SMSF early access, tax avoidance

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2023
... nevertheless ramping up its surveillance strategy in a bid to combat numerous risks, the most common being illegal early access. "Unfortunately, we are seeing an increasing number of trustees taking advantage of their direct access to their SMSF bank ...

Future-proofing the super system: Rees

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2023
... near term." Recent research by George Washington University, Harvard and Australian National University found the early access scheme introduced during the COVID pandemic was predominately taken up by younger Australians in lower paid occupations and ...
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