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AustralianSuper changes admin fees

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2022
... 0.10% of their balance, capped at $350. Currently they pay a flat $2.25 a week plus a fee up to 0.04% deducted from before-tax investment returns. "AustralianSuper regularly reviews the products and services we offer including how much they cost members. ...

Stuart Robert named shadow financial services minister

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2022
... "This Labor government has promised the world and must be held to account- for every cent allocated, and especially every tax dollar raised from Australians' hard work." She is one of 10 women named in Dutton's shadow cabinet.

ASFA, Deloitte recommend group insurance changes

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2022
... report says that insurance in super has a relatively high admission rate on claims, has a high average payout ratio and is a tax-effective method to access insurance for death and total permanent disability. However, even with insurance in super, Australia ...

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 ...