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Tax treatment of granny flats under review

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2018
The Federal Government has requested the Board of Taxation conduct a review of the tax treatment of granny flat arrangements and outline potential reforms to assist the prevention of elder abuse. Under existing tax laws, a homeowner may have to pay ...

Chief economist update: Powell Power

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2018
... Halloween month of October - when, in an interview with PBS, he declared that: "The really extremely accommodative low interest rates that we needed when the economy was quite weak, we don't need those anymore. They're not appropriate anymore. ...

Asset manager consolidation top of mind for HNWIs

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2018
... Phil Gomm, said: "Vertically integrated financial services business models are also demonstrating complex conflict of interest challenges for advisers." "Senior leaders acknowledged recently in the Royal Commission that robo-advice services, with hardened ...

Asset managers join diversity program

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2018
... Mercer learning and inclusion practice leader Yolanda Beattie said since the program's launch in August "we've seen strong interest from women as well as people from diverse backgrounds." "The initiative will ramp up next year, with our National Investments ...

Lenders must recognise millennial wealth strategies

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2018
... 50-64 using gearing. This is compared to 5% of millennial investors. However, the researcher notes there is substantial interest among millennials, with more than half (52%) saying they would like to or can be encouraged to begin using borrowings to ...

Chief economist update: Is TLTRO III coming?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2018
... difficult to gauge its exact contribution given the contemporaneous accommodative ECB policies of asset purchases and lower interest rates plus, the general lift in the global economies back then. Still, it would be a good backstop (if necessary) to ...

Vertical integration not to blame

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2018
... Group's submission said it is possible for financial advisers to comply with their duties to clients, including the best interest duty, in circumstances where a related party of their employer also manufactures financial products. The Royal Commission ...

Chief economist update: Wall Street in drunken sailor's shadow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2018
... spurring spending and lifting economic activity. Now the Fed is taking away money, money, money from the system (and raising interest rates) and the ECB has already stated that it would end QE by the end of this year. The Fed's actions have lifted ...

Rice Warner warns against culling value-based advice fees

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2018
... intra-fund advice," Rice Warner said. "The service can only address single issues of advice that relate to a member's interest in the fund, so would not address their overall financial position nor how it combines with the financial plans of any ...

Chief economist update: Where are the BOJ exit speculators now?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2018
... ensure that the BOJ would continue with its policy "Quantitative and Qualitative Monetary Easing (QQE) with a Negative Interest Rate" and "expanding the monetary base until the year-on-year rate of increase in the observed CPI (all items less fresh food) ...