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Good financial advice a challenge: ASIC

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2016
... challenges to that vision and the key strategies ASIC will use to respond to challenges and risks. ASIC listed its 2016-17 budget as approximately $400 million, which includes revenue from independent sources and capital funding. ASIC highlighted it ...

Parliament goes to war on super

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2016
... decade. Opposition Leader Bill Shorten wants the $500,000 lifetime cap on non-concessional super contributions to apply from Budget night 2016 (May 3), not 2007 as proposed by the coalition government. This would reduce revenue by $500 million over forward ...

Treasurer flags super cap exemptions

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2016
... that, the details of that are being worked through," Morrison said. As the government looks to refine its superannuation Budget measures before heading to parliament later this month, Morrison said he had been consulting colleagues and industry representatives ...

Super changes to widen super gender gap: IOOF

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2016
... adequate retirement for women, according to senior technical services manager at IOOF, Pam Roberts. Following the May 2016 budget there have been countless objections to the changes such as the retrospective provisions of the $500,000 lifetime cap and ...

Aligned advisers return to UK

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2016
... into advice was driven by new pensions freedoms announced by then Chancellor the Exchequer George Osborne in the June 2015 Budget. The new measures meant that from April 6, instead of being required to buy an annuity with their pension pot, people aged ...

SMSF advisers face demanding year

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2016
... SMSF advisers are facing a year of significant change for their clients as the Government seeks to implement its 2016-17 Budget superannuation measures. That was the message from SMSF Association head of policy Jordan George in his address to delegates ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2016
... in claimable interest rate based deductions on negatively property which should be a net positive for the commonwealth budget notwithstanding there will be offsetting effects on deeming rates. Dwelling approvals fall in June: ABS The number of dwellings ...

Retirement system needs work: Actuaries

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2016
... accounts ever undertaken, the Institute says the super balance exhaustion will only place further pressure on the Federal Budget and Age Pension. Actuaries Institute retirement income working group convenor Anthony Asher says the data confirms research ...

Economic wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2016
... concerns relating to real estate pricing. But they added that changes to real estate taxation in the UK Chancellor's March budget, which eroded 1% of capital values also dampened investor activity given the higher all-in transaction costs. Despite the ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2016
... policy, proposed only minimal changes to tax concession expenditures or proposed that Australia should increase its recurrent budget deficit. According to the Australian Office of Financial Management, the Australian commonwealth government has $428 ...