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Super funds hunting grounds for criminals

... money accumulated in funds continues to rise. Super funds have become even juicier targets following the Costello Federal Budget, where any savings placed in super funds become tax-free after the member turns 60. "It used to be banks, government bodies ...

Vision Super goes public

NICK OLIVER  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2007
... retirement and transitional income products designed to capitalise on super-related changes announced in last year's Federal Budget. Under the licence, the fund created VSF as the public offer entity. Vision is the trustee of the Local Authority Superannuation ...

SG at 9 per cent is enough: Watson Wyatt

... are stepping up their efforts to convince the government to include extra contribution initiatives in the 2007-08 Federal Budget. Michelle Baltazar

ATO to create single lost super gateway

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2006
... superannuation schemes. In other legislative news, the Streamlining Superannuation legislative package stemming from the Federal Budget has been introduced into Parliament. Treasurer Peter Costello said as a result of the reforms, in the vast majority ...

ALP finally agrees to back Budget super reforms

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 7 DEC 2006
... has bowed to the inevitable and finally agreed to back the government's superannuation reforms announced in the Federal Budget. Peter Dutton, Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer, said he welcomed the ALP's support for the reforms. "This is a ...

Multiple super accounts wasting billions in fees: CHOICE

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2006
... Treasurer Peter Costello who has threatened legislative solutions if they did not respond. A major reform in the 2006 Federal Budget is the creation of a standard super fund transfer form, to be implemented from 1 July 2007. CHOICE recommends the creation ...

Consumers want more savings but have nothing to save

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2006
... signals, consumers seem generally very encouraged by the Government's superannuation reforms announced in the 2006 Federal Budget. "More than two out of three consumers surveyed believe the super changes are a good thing. Few of the remainder opposed ...

First State Super launches retirement products

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 NOV 2006
... well informed about their super but this interest has been heightened by the superannuation reforms in the 2007 Federal Budget. For members who have already reached preservation age but who are still working there is First State Super's Transition to ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2006
... that will allow small businesses with turnover of less than $2 million to access small business concessions. The federal budget of earlier this year introduced $127 million worth of tax benefits to small business. The new scheme does away with the old ...

Government must intervene more to promote savings: CEDA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2006
... trillion within a decade, even before factoring in the impact of the savings incentives announced in the latest Federal Budget and the establishment of the Future Fund. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), in the latest country ...