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Death tax would save budget billions: Costello

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2016
The pre-budget cloud of ideas continues to thicken with Community Council for Australia chair Tim Costello advocating the federal government create an estate duty or death tax. Costello and the Council believe such a tax would generate more than $5 ...

New standards for member engagement

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2016
... your super" approach to individual member engagement with their super account. The industry-wide member shift from accumulation to retirement is also seeing super funds ramp advice channels. "As increasing number of members reach retirement, funds have ...

WAM Capital profit triples

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2016
... investment portfolio rose 25.6% for the 12-month period to 31 December 2015, outperforming the S&P/ASX All Ordinaries Accumulation Index by 21.8%. In the six months to 31 December 2015, the portfolio increased 16.5% against a 6.4% increase in the same ...

SMSF borrowing triples in four years

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
... APRA funds of more than four members," Macfarlane said. Macfarlane added that while the majority of SMSFs are in accumulation phase, in the last five years the ATO had seen an increase of 8% in funds moving into full pension phase.

Equip drops super fees

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015
... fund Equipsuper has presented members with an early Christmas present, announcing it will cut fees and costs for accumulation and pension members from February 2016. Fee and cost cuts at the $7 billion fund have come from investment fee reductions for ...

ISA launches super tax plan

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2015
... Pension asset test with a taper of no more than $2 per $1000 of assets. It also proposes level earnings taxes of 15% in accumulation and the retirement phase with a rebate for earnings under $50,000 per annum in retirement. ISA chief executive David ...

UniSuper develops retirement product

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2015
... designed to provide members with access to a default lifetime pension on retirement and greater flexibility during the accumulation phase. The development of the option follows the Government's response to the Financial System Inquiry (FSI), which was ...

Pessimistic investment horizon for super

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2015
... difficult but she forecasts a recovery back to normal conditions. "I don't think the GFC was a normal recession. The accumulation of debt was acute and as a consequence what we are finding is our capacity to return to normal conditions is strained because ...

Tasplan and Quadrant merger official

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2015
... officially merge today in a move that will strengthen Tasplan's position to eventually merge with the RBF Tasmanian Accumulation Scheme. Tasplan chief executive Wayne Davy said in light of the merger the fund's board has extended its commitment to invest ...

CIPRs not the entire answer for retirement

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2015
... their money." Johnson said QSuper has about 10,000 members who are age 65 and above sitting inactive and sitting in accumulation. "If I look at the bigger balances about 17% of them are just sitting there. There are a lot of people with money in super ...