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Financial Standard unwrapped: Our top stories in 2018

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 DEC 2018
... throughout the year the wealth management industry largely moved to oppose the policy. With the likelihood of a Labor Government seemingly firming, one fund manager suggested investors should prepare by moving into fixed interest. BTFG proposes advice ...

Investors to move on property before election: BlackRock

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 DEC 2018
... might lead investors to make wholesale changes in anticipation of changes to negative gearing under a possible Labor government in 2019. BlackRock Australia head of fixed income Craig Vardy said with Labor poised to form Government, investors might have ...

Chief investment officer retires

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2018
... any bear market will be significantly worse if Labor wins the next Federal election. He went as far to say a Labor government will result in the first economic recession in Australia for 27 years. "We have been fighting against Labor's policy to ...

Labor Government on the cards: Spot poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2018
There is a good chance that the Labor Party will win the next election, Financial Standard's readership says. We recently asked our readers which of the following events will likely eventuate in the next 12 months: a global trade war; China going into ...

Labor commits $400m to gender super gap

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 SEP 2018
... that no Australian should be penalised for taking time out of paid work to have children. That is why a Shorten Labor Government will ensure that recipients of Commonwealth Paid Parental Leave and Dad and Partner Pay payments continue to receive super ...

Industry welcomes pensioners' dividend tax policy exemption: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2018
... reforms, 87% of poll respondents expressed strong concerns that the crackdown would severely affect retirees. The Labor Government announced in mid-March it will the eliminate cash refunds received from excess dividend imputation credits. This is a "generous" ...

Shuttering dividend cash loophole to hit SMSFs

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2018
The Labor Government is proposing to eliminate cash refunds received from excess dividend imputation credits - a "generous" tax loophole that's mostly benefiting self-managed super funds. Shadow treasurer Chris Bowen said this "unfair revenue leakage" ...

Traditional advice strategies pose retirement risk

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2018
... distributions can change over time and the wealth can be accessed before retirement, he said. "It is possible that a Labor government will look to change the way family trusts distribute to low income individuals, with a minimum rate of 30% to apply ...

Government names new ASIC chair

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2017
... bipartisan support to appointments consistently. Even when, maybe, that person wouldn't have been appointed by a Labor Government, we've lent our support."

Discretionary trusts crackdown short-sighted

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2017
The Labor government's proposed crackdown on discretionary trusts is "short-sighted" and "anti-family" given the broader tax system isn't operating on a level playing field, an industry expert says. In response to Opposition Leader Bill Shorten proposing ...