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Queensland super funds become public offer

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2016
... other spending. Pitt added the new legislation "will introduce changes to protect the QSuper defined benefit scheme against salary increases that lead to windfall gains in members' benefits that have not been paid for." Pennisi hinted QSuper will look ...

PROFILE: Vanguard Australia managing director Colin Kelton

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2016
... stockbroking firm, which didn't fill him with confidence of what an investment career might entail. "The job ad said it was a salary plus commission job but when I got there I was told it was a mistake in the paper and it was actually just commission," ...

Self-employed missing super savings

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2016
... as other ABS data. "The ABS data reinforces the diversity of retirement savings for both the self-employed and wage and salary earners. It also reinforces significant differences in the saving patterns of the self-employed relative to wage and salary ...

Super changes about sustainability: O'Dwyer

KELLY O'DWYER, ASSISTANT TREASURER AND MINISTER FOR SMALL BUSINESS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2016
... for personal superannuation contributions is only available to people who earn less than 10 per cent of their income from salary or wages. This will help the partially self-employed and those whose employers don't offer salary sacrificing arrangements ...

Potential budget super alterations welcome

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2016
... leave through government and employer funding; removing the exemption from paying the SG in respect of employees whose salary or wages are less than $450 in a calendar month; and that mechanisms for improving the retirement incomes of carers be examined. ...

Is tapping into super to pay off student debt a good idea?

WHITNEY FITZSIMMONS  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2016
... taxation it would receive on superannuation funding earnings," he said. "Super for HELP also seems open to rorting, by salary sacrificing into superannuation and then using the money to repay a HELP debt. Many years in the future, there may also be additional ...

Retention key driver behind planner salary increases

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2016
The Dawson Partnership 2016 Financial Planning Remuneration Trends Survey revealed 31% of the 25% of employers increasing remuneration were doing so as part of a retention strategy to retain valued employees. Other key findings from the survey revealed ...

SMSFs to remain popular despite political uncertainty

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2016
... negative gearing and receive a tax deduction, when often they would receive a larger tax deduction if they considered either salary sacrificing or making personal super contributions."

Super's purpose under further scrutiny

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2016
... within a long-term investment like super," ASFA chief executive Pauline Vamos said. Vamos said if a person aged 30 on a salary of $60,000 per year took out $25,000 to repay a HELP debt, their final retirement savings at age 67 would be reduced by about ...

Equip to pay super contributions during parental leave

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2016
... contributor to the gender savings gap across Australia but Equip said it does not apply to their employees, "for whom the salary structure is based on role and is agnostic to gender." Equip's online Move the Dial campaign has, since its launch in August ...