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No change to super tax subsidy measure

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2015
Superannuation lobby groups have failed to convince a parliamentary inquiry that the Tax Expenditures Statement misrepresents the cost of superannuation subsidies. The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Tax and Revenue has just issued its ...

Pessimistic investment horizon for super

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2015
... purchasing more computing power could mean the world is on the edge of a productivity boom - the likes of which we have never seen - or alternatively, companies may invest a fraction of what they previously did and may employ a fraction of the employees ...

The GFC is still among us: Varoufakis

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2015
... Sydney, Varoufakis said that the economic mechanism that had worked for decades before 2008 was destroyed by the GFC, but was never replaced. "The crisis we are experiencing everywhere, in the States, in Europe, now in China, is the repercussion of that ...

December moves

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2015
... had been de-flating over the past three months - minus 0.1% in the year to August and September from minus 0.2% in July. Never mind, someday, one day, the BOE will expand its QQE. "These members continued that the bank should make policy adjustments ...

Super lifetime cap could increase budget costs: Budget Office

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2015
... time now the Greens have pushed for reform to end superannuation being used as a vehicle for tax minimisation, which it was never intended to be," Bandt said. "We need to do much more to end the unfairness in our super system to make sure it properly ...

Advice M&A deals boom after years of stagnation

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2015
... provision was clarified. "When we started 2015, it was the most fluid market that I have ever seen," Prendeville said. "I have never seen the amount of capital that is around this year and going into 2016. Not only in domestic capital, venture capital ...

FEATURE: The great race to invest

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2015
... professional standards, Graeme Colley, warns against focusing on short term market returns when talking about SMSFs: "You will never be able to beat the market consistently on a monthly basis," he says. "If you have an SMSF, you need to think about the ...

OPINION: Super is Murray's big rock

ANDREW BRAGG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2015
... reduce fees and improve governance standards are long overdue. The Murray inquiry into Australia's financial system was never going to be as significant as the reviews headed by Sir Keith Campbell and Stan Wallis. Paul Keating pushed deregulation through ...

StatePlus talking to super funds of all sizes

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2015
... of apathy towards superannuation and the use of this black box where 9.25% of their salary goes into every month and they never see it until age 65," Panaretos said. "But the fact they do know when they get to age 65, this big lump sum has accumulated ...

ASIC charges unlicensed SMSF loan provider

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2015
... Grant Thorsby Ross (alias David Thorsby Ross) was the former sole director of Motabank and Multimedia Marketing, and has never held an Australian financial services or credit licence. According to ASIC's statement, he promoted loans based on the "illegal ...