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Financial System Inquiry response cut-out-and-keep guide

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015
... measures: By end-2015: Develop legislation to improve governance and transparency in super. Progress the Retirement Income Streams Review. Task the Productivity Commission to immediately develop and release criteria to assess the efficiency and competitiveness ...

Scrapping dividend imputation costly for retirees

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
... imputation over both the accumulation and retirement stages leads to an approximate 13% increase in retirement income streams," Vamos said. "For a worker on an average income this equates to $4000 more in retirement per annum. Even with the benefit of ...

ASFA asks FSI for clear targets to measure super success

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
... Vamos said. In its submission ASFA also says the biggest gap in the current system is the design of retirement income streams and the lack of a suitable range of products flexible enough to meet the varying and growing needs of Australia's retirees. ...

Super for retirement income not wealth warn Treasury, ASFA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014
... superannuation is achieving most of its objectives: "the system is on track to deliver for average Australians retirement income streams equivalent to 75% of retirees' pre-retirement income". Reinforcing this, the proportion of retirees drawing the full ...

Super for retirement income not wealth warn Treasury, ASFA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014
... superannuation is achieving most of its objectives: "the system is ontrack to deliver for average Australians retirement income streams equivalent to 75% of retirees' pre-retirement income". Reinforcing this, the proportion of retirees drawing the full ...

ASFA calls for clarity on retirement income review

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2014
... Arthur Sinodinos, said the government would carry out a broad review of the "regulatory arrangements for retirement income streams." He said this review would look at DLA's, which currently do not receive the same tax treatment as other retirement income ...

Government scraps Labor's annuities reforms

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2013
... development of longevity insurance products, as part of a broader review of the regulatory arrangements for retirement income streams." The scrapping of the policy comes as part of a review of 92 pieces of taxation and superannuation legislation that ...

Challenger acquires SMSF business

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2013
... developing longevity insurance products as part of a broader review of the regulatory arrangements for retirement income streams. "Longevity insurance products like deferred lifetime annuities are likely to hold appeal for SMSFs if designed with their ...

Too much super diverted to pay personal debt: CPA report

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2013
... superannuation policy is at risk of failing unless laws are introduced to quarantine savings for actual retirement income streams, warns CPA Australia in a major new report released to coincide with the 2013 federal election. Alex Malley, CPA Australia ...

Budget 2013-14 wrap up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013
... deferred annuities will in future be treated, for tax purposes, in the same way as other superannuation retirement income streams, noted Deloitte in their budget analysis. There will also be deeming of account based pensions under the social security ...