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Australia's Apple

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2012
... own virtuous cycle will start spinning faster. For for our miners' small sacrifice, we get lower tax rates for small businesses, around A$6 billion in infrastructure spending -- roads, rail and ports - and more money to retire on (increased compulsory ...

SuperStream exposure draft a positive step

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2012
... commencement date, with large employers to pay contributions to employees in this format by July 1 2013, with small businesses until July 1 2015. Margaret Stewart, ASFA's director of policy and industry practice, told Financial Standard said the draft ...

US adviser fiduciary rule stalls

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2011
... owners and retirement savers in plans and IRAs. "Investment advisers shouldn't be able to steer retirees, workers, small businesses and others into investments that benefit the advisers at the expense of their clients. The consumer's retirement security ...

Super funds prefer employers via clearing houses

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2011
... Business Superannuation Clearing House. The service, run through Medicare, offers a free processing service to small businesses with less than 20 employees, but Collister said the uptake had not been big so far. Collister will be one of many top industry ...

Coalition, small business reject super clearing house model

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2011
... The new Small Business Superannuation Clearing House, run through Medicare, offers a free processing service to small businesses with less than 20 employees. But Peter Strong, executive director of the council and member of the SSPCG, said this was not ...

Policy war erupts over super clearing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
... successful already achieving a 99 per cent satisfaction rating and saving significant administration time for small businesses using the free service. Bill Shorten assistant treasurer and minister for superannuation, said, "Take-up has been extremely ...

Coalition adopts ALP super clearing house model

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2011
... adopted the ALP's superannuation clearing house policy as their preferred way to simplify contribution payments for small businesses. Under the morphed policy, the Coalition has proposed small business employers send superannuation payments to the ATO ...

Opposition slams opt-in policy

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
... would increasingly be drawn to wealthy clients only. Gale cautioned that opt-in would have a negative impact on small businesses as advisers were already 'deserting middle Australia', and migrating to the top 30 per cent of clients, by wealth. The issue ...

Super stoush over opt-in scheme

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 21 FEB 2011
... lunch that the alternative avoided "short-termism" in planning outlook and reduced the administrative burden on small businesses - who make up many of Australia's 16,000-plus financial advisers. "FoFA's proposed annual opt-in will actually reduce consumer ...

Bunga bunga

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2011
... expect improved business loans for large and medium businesses and 70 per cent anticipating better loans from small businesses. And the all-important American consumer? Yes, they too are increasing their credit. News overnight showed that US consumer ...