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SMSF tool receives industry tick

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 9 APR 2018
... represents 1.1 million SMSF members, says it agrees with the view outlined by the ATO on appropriate use of reserves by SMSFs. This appears in the first edition of the bulletin. "The association concurs with the ATO's view that the use of reserves by ...

Crime victims should receive super access: Poll

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 9 APR 2018
... superannuation account should not mean that those victims should not gain access to it," she said. This week's poll asks whether SMSFs are unfairly targeted over property investment and borrowing.

Antipodes expands investment team, creates active ETF

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2018
... will be a replica of the firm's Antipodes Global Fund (long only). Findlay said the new investment vehicle will "enable SMSFs and other retail investors to easily access Antipodes' capabilities through an open-ended ASX-listed investment." "It's a sector ...

Industry welcomes pensioners' dividend tax policy exemption: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2018
... "unfair revenue leakage" that puts a tax burden on low and middle income earners, but enables self-managed super funds (SMSFs) to significantly benefit, Bowen said. Last week, Bowen introduced the Pensioner Guarantee policy to shield pensioners and allowance ...

Super Plus switches to SMSF fintech

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2018
... then said he anticipated the platform would become the eBay/Freelancer in the SMSF space. Super Plus's decision comes as SMSFs and super annulation funds look outside traditional vendor relationships to cuts costs and add functionality. Earlier this ...

Intiger hires global head for AI software push

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2018
... licensee financial planning productivity and software. He drove change in the several of the bank's advice areas including SMSFs, aged care and estate planning, his new employer said. While working for CBA, Jaja also contributed to embedding legislative ...

Labor's amended cash dividend refunds fall short: SMSFA

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2018
... struggling with the cost of living, especially with out of control power prices and Turnbull's cuts to Medicare." Bowen said SMSFs with at least one pensioner or allowance recipient before 28 March 2018 will also be exempt from the changes. SMSF Association ...

SMSFs continue to break with tradition

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2018
... investors turning their back on traditional SMSF portfolio darlings. According to the latest CommSec SMSF Trading Trends Report, SMSFs are taking heed from global economic trends such as Chinese demand for Australian milk products, demand for lithium ...

SMSFs ceding ground to direct investors in the ETF market

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2018
... market declined from 38% to 33% in 2017. This is reflected by the decreasing proportion of respondents investing in ETFs via SMSFs relative to the time they chose to invest: 33% of those who invested more than five years ago did so through SMSFs, while ...

Labor's imputation credit reform cops industry backlash

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2018
... potentially higher risk asset allocation in the retirement phase. "Funds seeking yield to deliver retirement income, especially SMSFs which are paying income streams, would need to shift their asset allocation towards investments which can provide increased ...