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Changes to advice incoming: Bragg

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2020
... helping Australians into the housing market, referencing research by Rice Warner and Grattan, which suggests those who own a home are more likely to avoid poverty in retirement. "We have a rigid system here; we give our money to super funds and insurance ...

Chief economist update: BOJ takes breather on stimulus sprint

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2020
... economic activity is likely to be constrained significantly again. In addition, households' and firms' behaviour at home and abroad is also uncertain, with people continuing to voluntarily make precautionary efforts until COVID-19 subsides."

ATO extends WFH deductions

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2020
Australians will be able to claim 80 cents for every hour they worked at home due to COVID-19, with the ATO extending the simplified tax deduction method until September 30. Taxpayers will only be required to keep a record of the hours they worked from ...

FASEA brings back remote tests

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020
... second wave of COVID-19, FASEA has responded by bringing back remote tests. "Following the reimposition of Stage 3 stay at home restrictions for metropolitan Melbourne and Mitchell Shire and the closure of exam venues, FASEA advises that Melbourne metropolitan ...

Chief economist update: UK plans for jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2020
The United Kingdom has followed the script dictated by the coronavirus pandemic in much of the world. On March 23, the government imposed strict lockdown measures, giving "bobbies" power to fine people leaving their homes for "non-essential" reasons. ...

Melburnians back in the lockup

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2020
... Department of Health and Human Services advises that from 11:59pm, 8 July 2020, Melburnians will only be allowed to leave home for four reasons: to shop for food and essential goods and services; for care or compassionate reasons; exercise outdoors ...

Chief economist update: Second waving, not drowning

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
... rivalries... China's economy is recovering, while its capital markets are undergoing reform and attracting money from home and abroad, setting the scene for a healthy bull market." But even before this, China and Hong Kong's sharemarkets have ...

Chief economist update: Victoria's secret

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2020
... state premier Dan Andrews has re-imposed lockdowns in 36 suburbs as at the end of June, with another three suburbs put into home detention on July 4 as cases of infection hit triple-digits, raising the likelihood that the Melbourne central business district ...

Land tax, not stamp duty: Report

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020
... reforming GST and reducing inefficient taxes has reignited calls for the scrapping of stamp duty when buying or selling a home, to be replaced by a broad-based land tax. The NSW Review of Federal Financial Relations draft report says there is a strong ...

Equipsuper, corporate fund merge

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2020
... successor fund transfer, transitioning the corporate super plan of a national wealth management group. Equipsuper is now home to the 950 members of the Pitcher Retirement Plan, with the successor fund transfer having finalised on June 1. It sees about ...