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Chief economist update: Cheaper prices not a bargain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2020
Down, down, prices are down... big time! The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reported that the country's headline inflation dropped by 1.9% in the June quarter - the largest quarter on quarter decline in the 72-year history that the statistician ...

SMSFA, FSC call for infrastructure investment access

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2020
The SMSF Association and the Financial Services Council (FSC) are calling for self-managed super funds to have access to unitised, liquid infrastructure investments as a way of generating economic growth. The two organisations, which represent more ...

UBS to cough up $14m over bond bungle

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2020
UBS will cough up more than $14 million (US$10 million) after the US Securities and Exchange Commission found it had violated rules giving retail investors priority in municipal bond offerings. According to the SEC, UBS improperly allocated bonds intended ...

ATO data heaps pressure on ASIC's SMSF fact sheet

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2020
New ATO data has brought ASIC's SMSF expense fact sheet under renewed pressure. Freshly released ATO figures show the median "operating expense" of SMSFs is $3923 a year, a stark contrast from data published by ASIC last year which stipulated the ...

Rich Dad feels for financial advisers

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
Author of ubiquitous personal finance self-help book Rich Dad Poor Dad Robert Kiyosaki says he feels for financial advisers amid the COVID-19 pandemic - though he won't be taking their advice. "They have a tough job, a very tough job," Kiyosaki ...

Proceed with caution: Janus Henderson

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2020
The head of global asset allocation at Janus Henderson has sounded the alarm on risk assets, warning the rally seen in April has so far ignored the threat of economic tailwinds from the COVID-19 pandemic. Janus Henderson's Ashwin Alankar warned investors ...

SMSF Association appoints deputy chief executive

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
A familiar face is set to return to the SMSF Association after a seven-year hiatus. SuperConcepts general manager of technical services and administration Peter Burgess has been appointed deputy chief executive of the SMSF Association, returning to ...

SMSFs granted annual return extension

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
SMSFs have been granted an extension to the lodgement of annual returns to the ATO to June. The ATO said it made the decision in the wake of the financial effects of the COVID-19 outbreak. "The requirement for an SMSF to appoint an auditor 45 days before ...

Chief economist update: A whole new world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2020
Daily reports of the rising number infections and fatalities from COVID-19 are matched only by tightening restrictions on social interaction and the ever-increasing amount of money released from government and central bank coffers. How wide and far-ranging ...

SMSFs in flashback to 2008

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2020
Self-managed super fund professionals and trustees may be feeling some deja-vu, as the same measures that were used in 2008 have been brought in to guide the sector through the COVID-19 pandemic. Terry Pinnell, chair of the Ethical Advisers' Co-op ...