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Federal Budget is a Ginger Spice

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAY 2017
... interesting changes - some of which were interesting and welcome," Breckon said. Those that Breckon saw as welcome were the downsizing provisions for older people and the initiative to allow first home buyers to make voluntary contributions to super ...

What the 2017 Budget means for you

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... First Home Super Savers Scheme right through to an initiative encouraging older Australians to free up housing stock by downsizing. The latter would allow those over the age of 65 to make a non-concessional contribution of up to $300,000 into their superannuation ...

Downsizing measures present advice opportunities

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... both members of a couple will be entitled to take advantage of the measure which is designed to reduce barriers to downsizing for older people. "Encouraging downsizing may enable more effective use of the housing stock by freeing up larger homes for ...

ANZ and ETFS cut ties

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAY 2017
ANZ ETFS is no more as the rapidly-downsizing bank decided to end its joint venture with ETF Securities, creating a separate business in the process. ANZ ETFS has been rebranded ETF Securities Australia, and eight exchange-traded products originally ...

New wave of retirees to challenge advisers

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2016
... business ventures and loss of employment" will lead a number of retirees to consider taking out a reverse mortgage, downsizing, renting, moving into a retirement home or building a granny flat. "Financial planners will be on the frontline and need to ...

Actuaries re-enter super housing debate

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2016
... protection (up to a cap) from the Age Pension means test for amounts accessed under home equity release schemes and downsizing. It also discusses regulatory protection for the elderly to help prevent financial abuse. The report highlights other options ...

Intra-fund advice can be improved: WSSA

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... facilitating meetings with advisers in the workplace. "I've been speaking to some funds and I've been told that they're downsizing their intra-fund call centre because they're not getting that many calls," Latto said. "I saw an industry fund survey that ...

Independent dealers in M&A mode

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2015
... structure." Prendeville also noted that institutions are reducing their exposure to the wealth management space by downsizing M&A teams and wrapping up dealer groups, as AMP did with Genesys. "I think it's a pretty strong reflection of their diminished ...

Super reforms to hurt retirees

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
... million into super in one hit, that amnesty period, people downsized," she said. "But now that's over, they're not downsizing because they can't put the net proceeds into super. They don't want to put their untaxed capital into a taxed environment." ...

Super funds 'fair game' for activist scrutiny

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2013
... activists rather than investigative journalists would be the most likely group to cause funds problems. "Because of the downsizing of the mainstream media, your chances of getting investigative reporters spending months on a story about your investments ...