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Asset test rules hurting retirement savings: SMSFA

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JAN 2018
The SMSF Association is voicing its concerns over changes to the assets test rules for the Age Pension, that is discouraging retirement savings and has other "detrimental" behavioural effects one year on. SMSF Association chief executive John Maroney ...

Transfer balance cap reforms could hurt grieving SMSFs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2017
... seek financial advice as to how the transfer balance cap may impact their pension in the event of their spouse's death. SMSFA head of technical Peter Hogan said under the new superannuation rules that came into force on 1 July, the assets supporting ...

More time needed for TBAR transition: SMSFA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 25 SEP 2017
The SMSF Association is calling on the Australian Taxation Office to give SMSF trustees more time to adjust to the new Transfer Balance Account Report requirements, echoing member sentiment. In its submission to the ATO's Transfer Balance Cap and SMSF ...

Hands off super: SMSFA

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2017
The Self-Managed Super Fund Association is repeating its calls for a "sustained period of stability" in the superannuation system, telling the Productivity Commission that legislative change and speculation is an impediment to an efficient system that ...

SMSFA supports quarterly reporting proposal

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 22 AUG 2017
... paper on event-based reporting for the transfer balance cap has been endorsed by the SMSF Association. SMSF Association (SMSFA) chief executive John Maroney says event-based reporting, which is needed to implement the Government's transfer balance cap ...

Association launches retirement savings research hub

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUL 2017
... the design of retirement incomes policies, behavioural economics and investment markets, aged care and mental capacity. SMSFA chief executive John Maroney said the centre will focus on all social, economic and community issues that have an influence ...

Governance professional joins SMSFA board

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2017
The SMSF Association is welcoming a non-executive director and governance professional to its board of directors. Robyn FitzRoy, who is currently a non-executive director of Gateway Credit Union, joins the SMSF Association board effective 1 June 2017. ...

Opposition floats SMSF borrowing ban

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2017
... instruments being predominantly used to invest in residential and non-residential property in an almost 50-50 split," said SMSFA managing director/chief executive Andrea Slattery. "That estimated $12 billion where SMSFs have used LRBAs to invest in residential ...

Elder financial abuse requires education

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 APR 2017
... ageing population and cognitive decline makes elderly superannuation fund members more vulnerable to financial risk, but the SMSFA's head of policy Jordan George said it stands by its belief in not prescribing arrangements for loss of capacity. In response ...

SMSFA appoints high profile former politicians

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2017
The SMSF Association is hailing their commitment to "getting the right policy settings for retirement incomes, superannuation and financial services" with the appointment of two high-profile public figures. Former NSW Liberal premier Nick Greiner and ...