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FTSE sees rising demand for after tax index

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2011
... boost as Sunsuper's new $700 million equity mandate will be benchmarked against the FTSE ASFA Australia 300 capital gains tax index. The FTSE ASFA Australia Index Series, which provides a range of industry standard after-tax indices tailored to the needs ...

Budget 2011: CGT tax to restrict super trading

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
... funds, including SMSFs, from aggressively trading shares by making any resulting gains and losses subject to capital gains tax. The removal of the exception for super funds trading stocks, primarily shares, units in a trust and land, comes into effect ...

NGS Super merger too late for tax relief

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
NGS Super expects to complete a merger with UCSuper by early 2012, missing out on capital gains tax relief, having signed a memorandum of understanding to create a combined $4.4 billion fund. The optional capital gains tax (CGT) roll-over for capital ...

Count morphs into super entity with new AFSL

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
... choose not to use the grandfather arrangement for its strategic platforms due to issues such as stamp duty and capital gains tax. However, for all other platforms, Count would utilise the grandfathering arrangements, which effectively means the creation ...

Super funds win merger tax relief

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2011
... those moving by accident as part of parent companies involved in mergers. Vamos, who has lobbied Canberra for capital gains tax relief, said the decision took pressure off funds that are merging. "The amount of merging taking place puts strain on custodians ...

ASFA wants action on tax relief

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
... Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia is heading to Canberra to lobby the Federal Government over capital gains tax relief, association chief Pauline Vamos told a packed Sydney luncheon yesterday. The organisation wants continued tax relief ...

Pooled funds lose cash

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
... in popularity. McKeage said people wanted greater transparency and control of their super fund assets and the capital gains tax benefits of not being in a pooled fund. "It's a massive shift," she said.

ASFA and FTSE launch super GST index

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
An index measuring the performance of superannuation funds after capital gains tax has been released by the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia and London's FTSE Group. The index provides the first standardised measure for Australian super ...

Russell fast track after-tax investing

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 FEB 2011
... "Russell's fund encompasses a variety of sophisticated strategies encompassing turnover management, emulation, capital gains tax (CGT) optimisation and preservation of franking credits," said Raewyn Williams, director, after-tax investment strategies ...

Proposed tax rules to help instalment warrants investors

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 18 JAN 2011
... who buy instalment warrants over unlisted securities in widely held entities for example, would have to pay capital gains tax when they pay their last instalment. These changes will see no capital gains tax applicable at the time the last instalment ...