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SMSFs warned over incapacity planning

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2013
Often the risks of a self-managed super fund director becoming incapacitated are ignored, a leading lawyer has warned. Speaking last week at the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) national conference, Bryce Figot, director, DBA Lawyers ...

Temper, temper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2013
... optimism propelling it. Not to mention, better than expected earnings and improving economic stats. But there's also 'Murphy's Law': "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong". And that "anything" could be oil. It's getting me worried. Markets could ...

Broken 'contribs law' needs fixing: SPAA

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2013
... but Burgess questions its overall impact on the Government's budget position. Jemma Sanderson partner of financial services law firm Cooper Partners said that the legislation can also be particularly bad for women, who take extended breaks from the w ...

Policy team reshuffles at ASFA

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2013
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia has restructured its policy team after the departure last year of policy manager Margaret Stewart. Last week the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) said that after Stewart left ...

Rum outcome for Bundy: ASIC suspend license

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013
A day after a Western Australian credit broker had his license revoked for breaking the law, the industry body has banned Harold Charles Bundy for three years after it found he was not a fit and proper person to engage in credit activities. The ban ...

$18 billion super tax 'honey-pot' by 2020

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013
The Federal Government will scoop up $18 billion worth of superannuation taxes by the year 2020, said the Financial Services Council's submission to upcoming Federal Budget. In its submission released yesterday the Financial Services Council (FSC) made ...

New board member to tackle Asia growth: La Trobe

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013
... Tsing Hua University Beijing where he manages research and education programs. Chan is a qualified lawyer able to practice law both in Australia and China.

Back-off super: FSC missive to Canberra

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2013
... consumers," he said. In lashing out at the political speculation gripping the superannuation sector, Brogden also reminded law makers that every person who can fund their own retirement is one less that will be draining government coffers on the aged ...

ASIC cancels national planning firm's license

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2013
National financial planning business AAA Financial Intelligence has had its license revoked by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) after it had 'comprehensively and repeatedly' failed to comply with the Corporations Act 2001 ...

New claimants join class action against CBA

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2013
... Gloucester Shire Council in NSW and self-managed superannuation fund Clurname in the Federal Court last year. Piper Alderman the law firm running the action told Financial Standard today that new claimants have already emerged following the ads placed ...