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SMSF Association farewells super shadow minister

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2015
... the portfolios of financial services and superannuation, sport and assisting opposition leader Bill Shorten on small business.

New faces to lead financial services policy reform

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
... governance." Former Parlimentary Secretary to the Treasurer Kelly O'Dwyer is now Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Small Business, a position that Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has elevated to Cabinet due its responsibilities for revenue collection. ...

AIST opposes SG charge reductions

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
... meeting their compulsory super guarantee payments to employees. Draft legislation A introduced by former federal small business minister Bruce Billson is aiming to reduce the harshness of the superannuation guarantee charge (SGC), claiming it is burdensome ...

China stimulates

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
It couldn't have come soon enough. Hopes that China's powers-that-are would counter the slowdown in their economy with more stimulus measures - any stimulus measure - just turned into reality. Yes folks, Beijing's topping up last month's monetary policy ...

Countplus profit hit by end of loyalty payments

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
... franked and payable on 16 November 2015. "These annual results reflect a challenging trading environment in the small business sector, which is the target client base of our member firms," said Phil Aris, chief executive officer of Countplus. "Our results ...

Cbus opposes smaller super guarantee penalties

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... superannuation is heading in the wrong direction, according to an industry super fund chief executive. Federal small business minister Bruce Billson recently introduced draft legislation aiming to reduce the harshness of the superannuation guarantee ...

Crowe Horwath progressing growth ambitions

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
Six months on from the merger with Findex, Crowe Horwath is looking to broaden its financial advice offering by offering a full-service model to family offices. The merger significantly increases the scale of the accounting, audit, tax and financial ...

AFA tweaking life insurance framework

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
... are concerned that the three-year clawback not be used to shift an unreasonable burden from the institutions onto small business financial advisers that do the right thing."

IFAs to benefit from ASIC SME focus

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2015
... has highlighted the regulator's expanding role in the SME registration space. Speaking at the National Council of Small Business Australia Conference in Sydney, Tanzer noted that small businesses, with fewer than 20 employees, represent ASIC's "largest ...

Australian market opens higher

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2015
... the ASX, including building approvals on Wednesday and trade and retail sales later in the week indicating how small business has reacted to the budget tax cuts. Among the major banks, ANZ was up 35 cents to $32.55, Westpac had added 27 cents to $32.42 ...