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Super subsidies cost $32bn: Treasury

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2014
As the government prepares for a review of unsustainable welfare payments, Treasury has released its 2013-14 Tax Expenditures Statement (TES) that confirms the cost of superannuation tax subsidies is $32 billion. The TES is produced each year and is ...

Up, up, prices are up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2014
... the jump in inflation a one-off or is it the drop in employment that's a one-off? If history is any guide, the RBA reversed gear and started lowering interest rates back on 2 November 2011. At the time, the information it had was third quarter readings ...

Planners lax on capital protected product advice: ASIC

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2013
Many financial advisers have not made sufficient enquiries into their clients' financial circumstances when advising on capital protected products, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has found. In Report 377, 'Review of advice ...

That stupid war again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2013

La Trobe launches SMSF loan product

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2013
Credit Specialist La Trobe Financial has launched a new self-managed super fund (SMSF) loan product, allowing borrowers to buy residential, retail, commercial or rural property. La Trobe said launched the new product, which offers finance at 5.6%, in ...

Demand for industrial property exceeds expectations

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013
Investors' appetite for industrial property, especially from the self-managed super segment, is ahead of expectations, inflows into one property fund manager's specialist product indicate. Charter Hall has announced that it has closed its Direct Industrial ...

ISA asks for scaled, affordable advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2013
Industry Super Australia (ISA) has asked the Government to encourage scaled advice within the industry superannuation funds. In a document outlining the organisation's policy priorities for the period from 2013 to 2016, ISA stated that "financial advice ...

Wealth Within targets SMSFs with new platform

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2013
... plus 0.1025 per cent a year. It offers Australia's first direct property offering through a platform and allows SMSFs to gear directly into property. It also covers multiple asset classes including managed funds, managed accounts, model portfolios, direct ...

ASMA dismisses SMSF property bubble fears

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 30 SEP 2013
The Australian SMSF Members' Association (ASMA) has dismissed recent speculation that DIY investors are overheating the property market as 'a beat-up' and called on SMSF investors to invest even more in the sector. Last week the Reserve Bank of Australia ...

Abbott sticks to his promise on SMSF regulation

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has made clear that he isn't planning to make changes to the self-managed super fund (SMSF) sector even after the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) red flagged DIY investors' property exposure. "What we said was that there would ...