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Government announces key super reforms

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2013
... announced this morning. Starting July 1, 2014, all new earnings on assets supporting income streams such as superannuation pensions and annuities above $100,000 per year will be taxed at the same concessional rate of 15% that applies to earnings in the ...

Pivotal changes name to Affinia

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013
... June 2001 and is wholly-owned by the TAL group. Pivotal advisers deal in life insurance and risk, superannuation and pensions, master funds, managed investments and direct equities.

Politicians move 'super' goal posts at their peril

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2013
... contributions for high-income earners. "At some time we can also expect more of a push towards people being encouraged to take pensions rather than lump sums from their super and we would support this as we generally recommend this approach to clients ...

QROP advise must improve: AMP

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2013
... overarching missives conveyed by Rahul Singh an AMP technical services analyst during his Qualifying Recognised Overseas Pensions (QROP) workshop at last week's Financial Standard Technical Services Forum. Given that international pension transfers typically ...

Government gives tax certainty for deceased estates

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013
... to the beneficiaries of deceased estates. Investment earnings derived by superannuation funds from assets supporting pensions are exempt from tax. However, a draft ruling issued by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) in 2011 led to some uncertainty ...

Jury out on AFSL uptake by accountants

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2012
... what areas of SMSFs accountants could advise on, such as contributions, rollovers, borrowing arrangements, lump sums and pensions, he said. Moss also said most accountants don't understand how a financial services license works on a day-to-day basis. ...

Tough turkey for retirees this Christmas

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2012
... interest rate movements on retirees is usually offset by regular adjustments to the Centrelink deeming rates upon which pensions are calculated. "With interest rates on a downward slide, its time for the federal government to step up and adjust the deeming ...

End voluntary contribution age limits: Suncorp

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012
... increase from a quarter to half of all total Australian government spending specifically directed to health, age-related pensions and aged care by 2050. "The writing is on the wall that we must improve productivity if we are going to cope with an aging ...

CGT relief passes Senate

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012
... their super between Australia and New Zealand, the Financial Services Council (FSC) said it was important that private pensions could be transferred as we move towards a single market. Last year approximately 14,000 people left Australia permanently ...

Strong growth from Australian fund managers

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2012
... have once again grown strongly, according to research from Towers Watson. There are now 23 Australian managers in the Pensions & Investments/Towers Watson World 500, five more than last year. These managers have an aggregate level of funds under management ...