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Government releases draft life insurance regulations

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2016
... Remuneration Arrangements) Regulation 2016 bill. The amended regulation allows temporary inclusion of stamp duty in commissions for death benefits while the industry updates its "information technology systems," and also highlights circumstances where ...

OneVentures says VC needs scale in Australia

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2016
... on funding companies between their initial idea and first major investment hurdle, commonly referred to as the "valley of death". But it currently has a 90% failure rate. She added attracting later stage funding has emerged as the second "valley of death" ...

Men more confident than women in managing SMSFs

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2016
... in 10 SMSF trustees (42%) have had an event occur in their life, including loss of employment, a separation/divorce, or death of co-trustee, since starting their SMSF that could have significant implications for the management of their super. In the ...

Industry bodies clash over pension proposal

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2016
... Industry are so concerned about a pensioner's home being transferred to their kids, perhaps we should look at bringing back death duties for the wealthy."

Death tax would save budget billions: Costello

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2016
... 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 billion in revenue for the government and see ...

HLB Mann Judd launches estate planning

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2016
... but estate planning was an entirely different area to managing superannuation. "I would assume just keeping up with the death benefit nominations for super funds and dealing with members - by getting a copy of the will and writing to every single beneficiary ...

Minimum withdrawal rates act as default: CSIRO

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2016
... statement said. "It is important to note that the amount of money that most retirees are currently holding at retirement or death is far below the amount required for a comfortable level of expenditure."

Tax reform must not betray women

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2015
... Deloitte has called for concessional contribution caps based on joint incomes and a government provided basic level of lump sum death and disability insurance cover. The latter would be a "lump sum, scaling down from, say, $100,000 up to age 40 and provided ...

Australians undecided about higher super for women

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2015
... their finances openly with others - more than most other topics measured including health, relationships, politics, career, death, religion, taxes and emotions. The only topic to rate higher was sex (36%). The ME survey also found 63% of respondents ...

Sunsuper renews AIA mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2015
... Sunsuper has announced it will extend its partnership with AIA Australia to 2020. As a result, AIA will continue to provide death, total permanent disablement and income protection insurance to Sunsuper members beyond the original July 2016 deadline. ...