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Fundamentally challenged

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
... withdrawal syndrome scheduled to begin on that date. The Bush tax cuts and payroll-tax cut expire then, and the sequester of automatic spending cuts takes effect on January 2nd. Should we add a monetary off-ramp to the fiscal cliff?" Thank goodness the ...

Uncle Ben to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012
... American companies "have started to delay recruitment and investment on fears that Congress won't act to stop the $600B of automatic spending cuts and tax hikes that are due in January." Yes, more than Europe, America has the "fiscal cliff" to worry ...

SMSF software helps maximise property tax deductions

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
SMSF administration software developer Class Super has launched accounting software to calculate property depreciation values on an on-going basis. Class Super, owned by Class Financial Systems, has introduced the new property module to allow SMSF administrators ...

FOFA misses the mark on investment fraud

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012
A finance industry lawyer has warned that the FOFA regulations will not prevent Trio, Storm and Westpoint-type disasters from occuring in the future. "There has been no real change to rules making early detection and pre-emptive enforcement easier against ...

CSSA: MySuper puts corporate super insurance at risk

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012
... investment benefits cease at the point a member leaves a fund - the opposite to what actually happens. It assumes that an automatic transfer to a MySuper fund will not result in lost benefits." The CSSA has conducted its own research and found that 74% ...

The end is not nigh

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2012
... China and emerging markets and the US don't go down the drain, we won't. And then there's the A$ which is acting as an automatic stabiliser to the instability in Europe. The more unstable Europe becomes, the more our currency falls, the more competitive ...

UK pension reforms tackle longevity crisis

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2012

Mexican standoff

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2012

SuperMate updates online SMSF

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2012
SuperMate has launched three updates to its online self managed super fund administration service. The updates include fully automated ASX corporate actions processing, overnight bank data download into SMFSs for 95% of bank transactions and direct ...

Super scale requires immediate action

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2012
... stronger affinity with their members and produce good returns cost effective. "So the link between scale and success is not automatic but there can be diseconomies of scale in large funds, so the bigger they get the more services they offer and therefore ...