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BT beats Vanguard on tax: Aviva

BT Financial has pipped Vanguard to take the number one spot as the most tax-effective Australian equities fund, according to new research from platform group Aviva. This is the second year that Aviva has conducted the research analysing the tax-effectiveness ...

Planning business gives teachers bad advice

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2007
A Sydney financial planning business targeting teachers has been found guilty of providing super switching advice that was misleading or deceptive. The Supreme Court of New South Wales found First Capital Financial Planning, under the business name ...

Budget reply: National clearing house, halve the OS withholding tax

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2007
The real Budget presented by Treasurer Peter Costello on Tuesday night largely ignored superannuation and investment, but the make-believe Budget Reply announced by Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd last night had us front and centre. In a speech that started ...

A merger made in heaven

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2007
It looks as though Reuters and Thomson, the second and third-largest providers of financial data respectively, are set to tie the knot in a match made in heaven. The boards of Reuters and Thomson have confirmed they are negotiating a union that will ...

Elite investing strategies ready for download

It's not available in Australia just yet but in the US, a new research company is offering mum-and-dad investors and financial planners access to data that reveals the investment secrets of high net worth investors. Robert Huebscher, the founder of ...

Not easy being green

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2007
Generous tax cuts are expected for working families and business will receive a kiss-and-make-up tax deal in the Federal Budget, but our four-legged rural residents might just be put on notice as part of the Budget's environmental contingencies. For ...

Centric rolls out mat for expats

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2007
Centric Wealth has opened an Expatriate Services division aimed specifically at Australians living abroad, those heading overseas or those returning home. Centric Wealth adviser, David Suthons, said the expatriates market was large, with over one million ...

Billion dollar baby

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2007
Forget oil or dotcoms, the best way to make money fast is hedge fund management, according to Alpha magazine's top 25 rankings of hedge fund earners, with 2006 winner James Simons personally pulling in a staggering US$1.7 billion. In comparison, last ...

Tax determination improves income protection

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2007
Under a recent tax determination, income protection offered through super funds can now be extended for two more years for ill health and injury. Tax determination 2007/3 (TD 2007/3) replaces TD98/27 and allows for the extension of insurance coverage ...

BT to collect TFNs online

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2007
BT Financial Solutions is making it easier for customers to provide tax file numbers (TFN) in the lead up to the 1 July super changes by launching an online TFN updating tool. As part of the raft of changes to superannuation to come into effect 1 July ...