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Super funds call for SG increase to aid women

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2018
... of women ending up homeless in older age. As a shorter-term strategy, the super fund is also proposing a Housing Crisis Relief Fund be established for women aged 55 and over that are either already living rough or facing the prospect in the near future. ...

ATO closely monitoring SMSF balance caps

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2018
... to the tax treatment of transition-to-retirement income streams and whether or not they wish to use the transitional CGT relief that is available," he said. Secondly, SMSFs with members who took advantage of the practical compliance approach to commutations ...

Australia overdue for company tax cut: Spot poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2018
... from 35% to 21% effective 1 January 2018 as part of broader reforms under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act aiming to provide tax relief for workers, families and organisations. Thirty-one per cent strongly agreed that Australia is due for major tax reforms ...

ASIC successfully files injunction against Melbourne advice provider

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2018
... Commission Act 2001, including breaches of the best interests duty and unlicensed conduct. As such, ASIC sought injunctive relief as well as declarations of contraventions and financial penalties. According to ASIC, Financial Circle Pty Ltd holds an ...

SMSFs grappling with super changes

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 12 JAN 2018
... industry's focus was on optimising contributions and reducing pension accounts to under $1.6 million as well as considering CGT relief for those affected by the transfer balance cap and transition to retirement changes," he said. Consequently, members ...

Calastone adopts blockchain

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2017
... costs, operational and regulatory pressures, and the imminent introduction of MiFID II, blockchain can provide much needed relief to reduce costs, and deliver friction-free trading and regulatory transparency, Hammerson said. Calastone's network has ...

Treasury rolls out ASIC industry funding fee paper

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2017
... variations, applications for registration, requests for changes to market integrity rules or procedures and applications for relief. Fees associated with updating an ASIC registry database will not be included in the industry funding fee-for-service ...

Hiking life premiums is short-term thinking: ANZ Wealth

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 21 SEP 2017
... insurers are lifting premiums as a result of legacy products designed about 20 years ago, which only provides short-term relief and doesn't address longer-term implications. The early 2000s saw life insurers introduce "some of the world's broadest disability ...

DomaCom and ASIC reach agreement on retirement products

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 SEP 2017
... using their homes to develop and implement strategies for retirement. Fractional property investor DomaCom has received relief from ASIC to enable to delivery of its newly-developed reverse mortgage lending product. DomaCom has received a decision in ...

Advisers searching for LRBA answers

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 AUG 2017
... consultation." In the previous quarter, BT research found that advisers were primarily concerned with capital gains tax relief, super contributions pre- and post-tax and work test rules.