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SMSFs in rebalancing flurry

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2017
Benefit payments for self-managed superannuation fund members jumped by 71% in the March quarter, indicating a last-ditch effort to re-adjust balances head of the July 1 legislative changes to super. SuperConcepts' survey of 2750 SMSFs shows the average ...

Beneficiaries unfamiliar with death benefits

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAY 2017
... is particularly true when it comes to death benefits, according to the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal. In the March quarter, the distribution of deceased members' death benefits (21.5%) was the biggest source of complaints for the SCT, followed by ...

Expanding expansion in manufacturing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAY 2017
... still up a strong 11.2%. No rate hike too. The sharp pick-up in the annual rate of headline inflation to 2.1% in the March quarter from 1.5% in the previous one (inside the RBA's 2%-3% target band) may have lifted the odds for a rate hike. But futures ...

100 days of Trump (and counting)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 MAY 2017
... in household spending growth - that which makes up around 70% of national output -- to 0.3% (annualised) in the March quarter from 3.5% in the previous quarter. This is at odds with buoyant consumer sentiment surveys and underscores the Bureau of Economic ...

The CPI report that confirms all biases

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2017
... future (whenever that may be) would point out that the annual headline inflation rate accelerated to 2.1% in the March quarter from 1.5% in the previous three-month period. This is now inside the RBA's 2%-3% target band, the highest reading in 10 quarters ...

China's off to a good 2017 start

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 APR 2017
... China's economy growth accelerated in the first three months of 2017. Chinese GDP expanded by 6.9% in the year to the March quarter, a step up from the December 2016 quarter's 6.8% growth rate and 6.7% each in the previous three quarters of the same ...

CGT top of adviser minds

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 APR 2017
... to superannuation, according to the BT Advice Technical team. BT technical consultant Tim Howard said during the March quarter advisers were most keen to identify how CGT relief will be applied to retail super and SMSF clients. This was followed by pre ...

Japanese businesses have sunnier mood

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2017
... (BOJ) Tankan survey showed that the large manufacturers' sentiment index increased to a reading of plus 12 in the March quarter from the December quarter's plus 10 reading. While this is lower than market expectations for an increase to plus 14, it was ...

Damned if they do, damned if they don't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 APR 2017
First the good news. Crude oil prices have closed the March quarter of 2017 above the psychological US$50.00 per barrel mark - the level they have risen to since the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) announced that they (and non-OPEC ...

One Direction and the BOE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 MAR 2017
... further underscored by rising business confidence. The CBI business optimism index surged to a reading of +15 in the March quarter from -8 in the previous quarter and the Brexit-induced dive to -47 in the September quarter. Inflation has ratcheted higher ...