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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 ...

Shuttering dividend cash loophole to hit SMSFs

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2018
... treasurer Chris Bowen said this "unfair revenue leakage" puts a greater tax burden on low and middle income earners, but enables SMSFs to significantly benefit. Two-thirds of refunds accrue to tax-free superannuation and about 90% of these end up with ...

Beware downsizer downsides

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2018
... contribution can be used to start an income stream," he said. Likewise, those with bigger superannuation balances, particularly SMSFs, should weigh the benefits of using the downsizer contribution as it could put them at risk of losing a number of benefits ...

Contribution cap reforms see SMSFs spend cash

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 27 FEB 2018
... strategies to help stay under the $1.6 million pension transfer balance cap." The survey looks at about 2670 funds, a sample of SMSFs SuperConcepts administers and the investments they held at 31 December 2017, and represent about $3.2 billion in ass ...

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