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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2011
... - Tokyo share prices closed up 0.61 per cent on Monday after Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda was elected leader of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, making him set to become the nation's new premier. Stocks saw choppy trade and closed below intraday ...

Help for advisers with super death tax impact on SMSFs

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011
... financial advisors can participate in a webinar tomorrow on how to minimise the impact of the new "super death tax" draft ruling with anti-detriment law. Draft ruling TR 2011/D3, if enacted, will apply retrospectively from July 1, 2007 and will tax assets ...

SMSFs can use tax rule to save thousands conference told

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011
... Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) State Technical Conference was told. SPAA has voiced its concern over draft ruling TR 2011/D3 that enables the taxing of income earned by super fund assets, which supports a pension upon the death of the ...

SMSF body moves against super death tax

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2011
The financial services community now has the chance to comment on the recent draft tax ruling affecting self-managed super funds that some have called a death tax by stealth. Peter Burgess, technical director of the Self-Managed Super Fund Professionals' ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2011
... added 19 cents to $21.45. The big miners were in good shape, too, with BHP up 40 cents at $43.46, despite the federal court ruling that a non-union collective agreement covering workers in its Pilbara operations was invalid. Rio Tinto was up 69 cents ...

Real estate may cause super tax headache

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2011
... years. He said the tax office had first stated this was their interpretation in 2004, but the recent confirmation of the ruling had sparked a lot of media attention. It would be better if the pension was allowed to continue to the estate until death ...

SMSFs may be banned from buying shares off-market

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011
... Stronger Super initiative in principle but has not yet responded to the peak body's recommendation. It is not known when a ruling will be made.

Equipsuper clears merger hurdle with Vision

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2011
... that the issue had been over guaranteed union-nominated positions on the new board as has been reported. The nine-member ruling body of the merged fund will be a hybrid structure with some positions elected and some appointed. On the member side, two ...

Judgment Day bargains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2011
... outlook from stable to negative. There's trouble in Spain too with the huge losses suffered by Prime Minister Zapatero's ruling Socialist Party at the local and regional elections. The speculation is that the new municipal governments would uncover more ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2011
... its losses. Another steep downgrade of Greece's credit rating, a warning on Italy's debt and a major defeat of Spain's ruling party caused new worries about Europe's debt crisis. Fears that Europe's debt troubles could escalate, as they did last year ...