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Stella Network ramps up support for women in financial planning

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2015
... Marketing Monika Drankowska Social Media Jodie Osborne and Rechelle Coombes Media Julie Bennett and Fiona Harris Small business Annick Donat and Lucy Pryor Career/Interviewing Georgia Denny Career and leadership coaching Lauren Bunton Gen Y Siboney Corrales ...

Allow couples to hold joint super accounts: Rice Warner

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2015
Married couples should be allowed to have a joint account for their superannuation, Rice Warner proposed in its pre-budget submission to Treasury. "We set out the logic of this arrangement in a newsletter last year and had positive feedback from the ...

ASIC report highlights insufficient penalties

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2015
... outcomes between July 1, 2014, and December 31, 2014. Of those, 90 related to financial services companies and 204 to small business compliance and deterrence. ASIC took 172 criminal actions against small business company directors and 21 administrative ...

Taxpayers Australia supports Board of Tax recommendation

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015
Taxpayers Australia has announced its support for the Board of Tax recommendation to redefine the small business turnover threshold from $2 million to $3 million to keep pace with inflation. "Relief to small business is necessary as they do not have ...

Spike in SMSF borrowing breaches

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015
... thinking it was permissible to use their fund to borrow to overcome a short term liquidity problem - much like a small business seeking a temporary extension to a bank overdraft in difficult circumstances." Now into its seventh year, the Partners Wealth ...

Funds urge government to reject lift of super threshold

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015
... recommendations of the Board of Taxation appear to be proposed on the basis of removing compliance requirements for small business," Cbus chief executive David Atkin said. "Policy makers need to weigh policy recommendations against how they ensure that ...

Bad tidings for Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014
... strengthening momentum in the US economy. More indications of which came in the form of the 2-point increase in the NFIB Small Business Optimism Index to 98.1 in November - the highest print in the current recovery - amid sharp gains in expectations ...

Industry welcomes grandfathering deal

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2014
The financial services industry has welcomed the parliamentary agreement between the Coalition and Labor to fix the unintended consequences of scrapping grandfathering from the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation. The Financial Planning Association ...

SMEs embracing accounting in the cloud

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2014
The overwhelming majority of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) intend to increase expenditure on cloud accounting technology in the near future, according to a recent survey by Wolters Kluwer. A whopping 96% of respondents said they intended ...

MetLife partnership extend group insurance to SMEs

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
MetLife Insurance will partner Steadfast, the largest network of general insurance brokers in Australasia, to extend MetLife's group life cover to Australian small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The two companies have produced a suite of co-branded ...