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Super tax concession savings not overly generous: NAB

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2015
... been paid on an individual's ordinary income - implying that the bank supports the now abondoned low income super rebate scheme. "Tax rules within super should be consistent with tax rules outside super but at a different rate. If this is not true, then ...

Employee share scheme reforms to boost start-ups

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2015
Changes to the tax laws for employee share schemes should boost start-ups. The changes which are expected to be passed shortly, even though they are still being debated in parliament, are widely regarded as a good compromise between the previous Act ...

Tax reform cannot be deferred any longer: AVCAL

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
... research and development (R&D) tax refunds for eligible small businesses; continuing to improve proposed new employee share scheme rules for startups; and implementing the Board of Taxation's recent recommendations in relation to debt and equity tax ...

Trillion dollar super industry attractive to organised criminals

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
The Australian Crime Commission believes Stronger Super reforms implemented from 2013 have reduced illegal early release schemes run through self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs). In its latest report, Organised Crime in Australia 2015, the commission ...

Banned for taking $4m from SMSFs

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
... million from over 200 SMSF investors (aiming to raise at least $20 million). They intended to establish an offshore share scheme in the US and British Virgin Islands outside of the jurisdiction of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission ...

Widen access to PLS, say cross-bench senators

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015
... and Nick Xenophon have called on the government and opposition to back legislation to broaden access to the Pension Loan Scheme (PLS). The PLS, established by the Hawke government in 1983, is a reverse mortgage scheme that allows people of pension age ...

Smart beta here to stay, research confirms

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
Smart beta is present in over half of the world's portfolios, with professional investors increasingly combining multiple smart beta strategies, new global research found. The FTSE Russell Smart Beta: 2015 Global Survey Findings from Asset Owners survey ...

Lawyer slams NAB compensation scheme

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
National Australia Bank (NAB)'s program to compensate victims of bad financial advice lacks independence and does not go far enough, a lawyer representing some of the victims said. Shine Lawyers financial negligence solicitor Sasha Ivantsoff spoke to ...

ASIC bans convicted fraud "mastermind"

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
ASIC has banned the Australian "mastermind" of the UK's biggest ever boiler room scheme from practising financial services. From 2003 to 2007, Jeffrey Revell-Reade made A£70 million selling equities in non-existent companies via brokers in Madrid to ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015
... $US1.1315 late in New York on Monday. "Equity markets are ecstatic over the news that the ECB will front-load its bond buying scheme, and the short-term boost to the QE scheme has driven stock markets around Europe higher," said analyst David Madden ...