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Adviser exodus puts retirement savings at risk: CPA

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2025
... changing the financial advice best interest duty. "Investing retirement savings is complex, and carries with it intricate tax and super settings, asset tests and administrative burdens. However, getting the right advice is only becoming harder to find ...

Investors 'ignoring' volatility: Schroders

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2025
... equities Martin Conlon said. "Fiscal imbalances are obvious, with governments showing little intention of aligning spending with tax revenues. While equity markets benefit from their relative size and liquidity, bond markets become volatile. We've seen ...

Most Hostplus options achieve double-digit returns

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2025
Hostplus returned close to 11% to its MySuper members in FY25, while its popular Indexed Balanced option delivered just over 12%. The Hostplus Balanced (MySuper) option returned 10.81% to members, while the Indexed Balance option turned in 12.02%. Hostplus ...

Section 899 ditched but companies face tax uncertainties

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2025
... Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), local multinationals, however, were lumped with grave uncertainties surrounding the global Pillar 2 tax regime. Australian investors, particularly superannuation funds, lunged into cartwheels upon the exclusion of section ...

Superannuation is Australia's 'productivity engine': ASFA

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2025
... by around 2%. ASFA added that an average full-time worker is reaping a "super productivity dividend" of around $2500 in pre-tax wages every year. Further, Australia's enormous super pool, currently sitting at $4.1 trillion, has an investment claim on ...

L1 Capital, Platinum seal merger deal

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2025
... complementary client relationships and potential for combined distribution capabilities; and pro-forma for $20 million of annual pre-tax synergies due to overlaps in the businesses, among other things. Platinum said it is targeting a 25-30% reduction ...

Global advisory firm acquires Boutique Capital

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
... services including licensing, trustee, legal, compliance, registry, investor support, AML/KYC compliance, FATCA/CRS reporting, tax compliance and fund accounting. This acquisition follows Acclime's ongoing strategic expansion in Australia and New ...

Average super balance grows to $172k: ATO

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2025
... brackets expect for 70- to 74-year-olds, where women had $215,202 and men had $214,749. The ATO's breakdown of income tax positions of individuals, companies, trusts, super funds and partnerships shows it collected $577.4 billion in total tax revenue ...

SMSFs' risk appetite to change under Division 296: Wilson

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2025
The controversial superannuation tax will likely see an exodus of SMSF capital from emerging companies as they look to avoid growth companies, a discussion paper says. Following its initial discussion paper and petition on Division 296, Wilson Asset ...

Super funds given reprieve from Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2025
... Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' will be abandoned after institutional investors expressed concerns over the retaliatory tax proposal. The announcement was made by US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent overnight on social media platform X (previously ...