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Roads, railways, NBN winners in Budget

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
Labor's attempt to build new and revitalise existing roads and railways will see a $17.1 billion allocation over 10 years, while the NBN will receive a $3 billion bonanza. The Federal Budget commitment to improve transportation networks forms part ...

Tax rules clarified for managed investment trusts

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
... resident capital gains tax regime is expected to reduce government receipts by $50 million and decrease payments by $300,000 over the five years from 2024-25. Meanwhile, the fiscal impact of deferring the start date for the clean building managed investment ...

New tax cuts for every Australian 'a complete joke': UNSW

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
... raise the Medicare levy low-income threshold by 4.7%, effective from 1 July 2024. Budget documents said this should help over a million lower-income Australians either stay exempt or continue paying a reduced Medicare levy rate. The government will also ...

Government looks to bolster TPB, tax compliance

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
... enhancing sanctions the TPB can impose, modernising the registration framework for tax practitioners and providing funding over four years to the TPB to undertake additional compliance targeting high-risk practitioners. This will commence from July 1. ...

Regal slashes holdings in Opthea over insolvency concerns

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
Regal Asian Investments (ASX:RG8) has significantly devalued its holdings in biopharmaceutical company Opthea after the latter flagged insolvency concerns amid the failure of a major clinical trial. RG8 has been forced to drop Opthea's value to ...

Sliver of Aussie global equity managers beat index: SPIVA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
... for performance, the latest SPIVA Scorecard shows. Last year saw 85% of active global equity funds struggle to keep pace over the one-year period - the second-highest underperformance rate recorded by SPIVA's Australia Scorecard. They fared worse ...

What to expect in the 2025 Federal Budget

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
... Budget but the whole set of four Budgets, is that we have helped engineer a $200 billion improvement in the Budget position over the years that we have been responsible for. That is the biggest ever nominal improvement in the Budget," Chalmers said in ...

My Dealer Services partners to enhance adviser education

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
... find the best and most innovative providers in their field to support them as needed at competitive rates," Mahadeea said. "Over the coming months, we will be launching additional services and reaching out to more advisers to share our core belief that ...

Splintered globalisation a boon for AI, metals, EVs: PGIM

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2025
... likely to capture different segments of the market across regions, PGIM said, adding they each have comparative advantages over peers and offer stable opportunities for growth that will prevail in this new era. Overall, the first track of globalisation ...

Australians 'overwhelmed' by retirement: Aware

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2025
Sixty-three percent of Australians aged 45 and over are concerned or anxious about retirement according to Aware Super's State of Retirement report, with almost nine in 10 people worried they will run out of money. The research found one in 10 people ...