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BT answers advisers' top tax time questions

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2022
... investment property, consider contributing some of the sale proceeds into super, to potentially reduce their capital gains tax liability. The tax rate in super being 15%, compared to paying a capital gains marginal rate as high as 47%. The BT recommendations ...

Evolving nature of investment operations boosts salaries

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2022
... especially at the three to five years of experience range," the recruiter said. "Candidates will either have unit pricing, tax, financial reporting experience or they will have middle office trade matching skills, rarely both." Kaizen said there has ...

Liberals should liberate Australians from super: Bragg

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2022
Liberal senator Andrew Bragg has pulled no punches in a recently released policy manifesto titled The basis of a fair society is a strong economy, once again calling for superannuation to be voluntary for those on low incomes. "Superannuation is a significant ...

Westpac offloads BT super funds to Mercer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2022
... investment options and a number of products on BT Panorama. The net effect of both transactions is expected to be an after-tax gain of $225 million, Westpac said. This follows Westpac writing off all of the capitalised software and goodwill in the super ...

Generation Life launches retirement income product

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2022
... client experience we offer," he said. GBST chief executive Robert DeDominicis said GBST is delighted to collaborate with the tax specialists and facilitate new lifetime income solutions. "Our wealth administration platform, Composer, is well placed to ...

Superhero board signs former ASIC boss

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2022
... from ASIC after it was found he had been significantly overpaid, including ASIC paying almost $120,000 to cover his personal tax advice. The former corporate watchdog boss was cleared of any wrongdoing but still ended his tenure (2018- 2021) two years ...

Pandemic created a new billionaire every 30 hours: Oxfam

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2022
... wealth inequality, including one-off taxes on billionaires' pandemic windfalls and permanent wealth taxes; an annual wealth tax on millionaires starting at just 2% on wealth over $5 million and 5% for billionaires could generate $2.52 trillion a year ...

VanEck carbon credits ETF set to hit ASX

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2022
VanEck will launch Australia's first carbon credits ETF, tracking the four most actively traded and largest carbon markets and emissions trading schemes (ETS) in the world. Subject to ASX and final regulatory approval VanEck Global Carbon Credits ETF ...

Super home buyer scheme fails to move the needle

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2022
... "On the other hand, the member might be saving some rent or mortgage interest and we presume that any capital gain would be tax-free to the fund, another potential positive." Presumably, super funds would also need to track the value of the homes while ...

Superannuation not a super solution to housing affordability

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2022
Homeownership rates have plummeted, but unions and industry groups have had a negative response to Scott Morrison's last-ditch pitch to 'aspirational Australians'. Morrison has said that supporting first home buyers is a key part of his government's ...