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Patience urged over 'shortsighted' super tax

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2025
... action - there is one group of SMSF members facing a difficult choice. "Division 296 tax depends heavily on how a member's 'total super balance' changes from year to year," Heffron said. "Currently, a member who has a complying lifetime pension has a ...

Prime Super calls time on sustainable option

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2025
... are in the accumulation phase, with less than 60 pension or TTR members. It accounts for only $33 million of Prime Super's total funds under management. Those still invested in the option on June 4 will be moved over to the MySuper/Balanced option. The ...

Vanguard ETFs claim first, second, and third place for inflows

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2025
... respectively. Year to date, Vanguard has recorded the highest ETF issuer flows, amassing $5.3 billion, 33.28% of the industry total. Vanguard Investments Australia managing director Daniel Shrimski said that although markets were volatile in April, most ...

Panic selling of SMSF assets 'totally unnecessary'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2025
... returns. That's why franked dividends, while not a shield against the new tax, remain a vital part of managing a fund's total tax burden," McDougall said. "Franking credits cannot reduce the Division 296 tax itself, but they can eliminate the ...

Macquarie raked over the coals again by ASIC

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2025
... February 2024, it failed to correctly report at least 73 million short sales. The regulator, however, believes the scale of total misreporting could be between 298 million and 1.5 billion short sales. ASIC also contends that Macquarie incorrectly reported ...

Criminal attacks, human error drive data breaches

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2025
... 25% in 2024; 54 or 9% of which occurred at financial services organisations. New statistics from the OAIC show there was a total of 1113 notifications received about data breaches in the 2024 calendar year. In 2023, there was 893. Of the 1113, 595 came ...

Cbus increases insurance premiums

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2025
Cbus will increase insurance fees for death and total and permanent disability (TPD) cover from July 5. Those aged between 15 and 25 will see their fees remain the same, but those in older age brackets will be paying slightly more each week. For members ...

Labor vs Liberal: Which government is better for Australian stocks?

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025
... the MSCI World ex-Australia Index by an annualised 0.1% under Coalition governments, and by 0.3% under Labor. "Given that total returns over the period were nearly 11%, the magnitude of underperformance in both cases is trivial," he said. "The bigger ...

TPD claim settlements take 'considerably longer': Rainmaker

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025
New group insurance research finds that total permanent disability (TPD) claims are taking much longer to process, while death claims appear to have more efficient processes in place. According to Rainmaker's latest benchmarking data, a total of ...

'Lunatic' tariffs can directly hit Australia: Academics

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025
... away with a lot of other stuff he's talking about," he said. In 2023, the US accounted for only 12.9% of China's total exports, according to the Observatory of Economic Complexity database. China's exports are spread out across the rest of ...