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ATO upgrades SMSF and SuperSeeker website

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
The Australian Taxation Office is conducting a survey of SMSF trustees to investigate if it should put more SMSF tax interpretations on their website. To ascertain the type of SMSF information trustees and service providers want, they are conducting ...

Fear is here

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
Wall Street dropped big time overnight. Thank goodness for that. The S&P 500 index closed 1.8% lower last night. This is the biggest daily fall since the 2.4% drop registered on 7/11/2012 - the time when markets were neck-deep with worries. At the time ...

Fed sorted easy, now for the ceiling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2013
Huh? Was that it? Was that the correction we had to have? To borrow from Neil Young, "My my, hey hey," seems like rock n' roll is here to stay 'ey? You know what I mean. It's the S&P 500's big back-to-back corrections on Wednesday (down 1.2%) and Thursday ...

Industry groups join forces to mount super campaign

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2013
Industry groups have warned politicians to guarantee that no further changes will be made to superannuation. This morning both the Financial Services Council and the newly-formed SMSF Owners' Alliance gave Federal Government a March 12 deadline, the ...

Australia better long-term bet than the US

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2013
Smaller developed economies look far more attractive investment propositions than traditional global investment centres such as the US, Europe and Japan, according to BlackRock's global chief investment strategist Russ Koesterich. Addressing journalists ...

Puke on the punchbowl

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2013
So near, yet so far. Remember those back of the envelope calculations we did yesterday, Virginia? The one which showed that the S&P 500 is almost there - could reclaim the all-time peak it reached in October 2007 by this weekend or at the most by the ...

Broken 'contribs law' needs fixing: SPAA

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2013
The rules that limit how much money people can put into their superannuation fund are not working and need to be changed, an industry expert said yesterday. Speaking at SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia's ( SPAA) conference in Melbourne ...

Big deal day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013
Ho-hum. Wake me up when it's over. "Twas another ordinary day in the market's today folks. The only news being the long wait for US President Barack Obama's State of the Union address. According to Bloomberg, "He will make proposals for spending on ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher despite a mixed showing on European markets and falls on Wall Street. At 0639 AEDT on Tuesday, the March share price index futures contract was up 12 points at 4,931. In economic news on Tuesday, the National ...

Market Wrap - PM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2013
The Australian stock market has opened flat, with strong gains in consumer discretionary stocks offset by weakness in mining-related sectors. At 1027 AEDT on Monday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 4.1 points, or 0.08 per cent, at 4,967.2 points ...