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Call for personal tax cuts to plug company tax loophole

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 18 APR 2006
A push to cut top income tax rates was flagged this week as the Board of Taxation chairman, Dick Warburton, said such a reduction would stop people channelling personal income into company coffers. Warburton recently co-authored a report comparing Australia's ...

Advice is cheap compared to tax return fees

... returns directly or through the e-tax internet portal. Super choice is expected to encourage a much greater uptake of direct channel super fund products like industry funds and simpler no-advice products. But if the evidence from tax agents means anything ...

AXA adds NCAPs to its arsenal for over 55s

AXA has added non-commutable allocated pensions (NCAPs) to its adviser and platform channels in a bid to capture more of the over 55s market who are searching for income streams or tax benefits. AXA's head of superannuation and retirement incomes, Andrew ...

Margin lenders bank on reputation not just rates

... surprising that the big names dominated the top of the ladder. Commonwealth Securities was rated number one among the direct channel providers, Colonial Geared Investments was the preferred choice of planners and Macquarie Margin Lending and Leveraged ...

ING PEAL banks on private equity profits continuing

ING Private Equity Access Limited (ING PEAL) has posted a $3.23 million profit for the six months to the end of December 2005, primarily on the back of its listed equity portfolio. Australia's first listed private equity fund of funds, ING PEAL also ...

Master trusts losing ground over poor marketing

Master trusts need to re-think their marketing strategy if they want to stop the consumer exodus to industry funds, according to corporate strategy and communications firm Evolution Media. The group has pointed out InvestmentLink's data which showed ...

FPA readies for another dose of Dazza

After the success of their initial "Dazza" value of advice advertising campaign, the FPA is revving up for round two. According to the FPA, 34 per cent of investors who participated in a study had seen the initial "Dazza" campaign about the value of ...

Twice as many super funds now offering planning advice

New figures released by Rainmaker reveal that the number of superannuation funds offering financial planning to members has doubled over three years, with more industry funds set to take it up. Figures from Rainmaker's new online super fund comparison ...

Triguboff appoints new investment manager at MIR

MIR has appointed a new head of investments to work closely with MIR's CEO and ex-investment banker, Michael Triguboff. Marian Carr has taken up the position, deserting her old posting as investment manager at Harwood Superannuation Fund, subsidiary ...

Funds leave the US, bound for Japan

Investors have shunned US equity funds, channeling funds into Japanese equity funds instead. One of the more pronounced trends of 2005 continued in the first quarter of calendar year 2006, with investors pulling money out of US equity funds and pouring ...