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Treat real estate agents like advisers: REIA

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2018
Real estate agents should be treated like financial advisers and be directly remunerated by the real estate vendor, the Real Estate Institute of Australia advised in a Royal Commission submission. REIA president Malcolm Gunning noted a proliferation ...

UK fund managers must improve fairness

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018
The UK's financial services conduct regulator has released new rules for fund managers as part of its ongoing study into the asset management market. The latest Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) report states that fund managers, as the agents of investors ...

Optimo adds SMSF modelling to platform

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018
... modelling platform, allows financial advisers to create projections for up to 20 years that cover tax, superannuation and the Age Pension. Optimo Financial chief executive Hugh Bannister said for too long advisers have relied on cumbersome, multi-module ...

Industry fund transformation sees rebrand

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2018
... series of steps the fund has taken to increase engagement with its two million members, of which more than half are under the age of 30. Recently the fund launched an app which allows members to monitor their super and message Rest directly. It also ...

Industry welcomes pensioners' dividend tax policy exemption: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2018
... amended policy. Under Labor's proposal, the only SMSFs exempt are those that currently have at least one member receiving the Age Pension, he said. "The amended policy excludes similar protection to self-funded retirees, many of whom draw their retirement ...

Labor's amended cash dividend refunds fall short: SMSFA

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2018
... amended policy. Under Labor's proposal, the only SMSFs exempt are those that currently have at least one member receiving the Age Pension, he said. "The amended policy excludes similar protection to self-funded retirees, many of whom draw their retirement ...

Aussie attitudes toward retirement shifting

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2018
The number of superannuants making additional contributions to superannuation is declining as the age at which people intend to retire increases. According to recent Roy Morgan studies, more than one in five (20.8%) contributors to superannuation members ...

Labor's imputation credit reform cops industry backlash

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2018
... Sally Loane, the current superannuation policy is working and helping to gradually reduce national taxpayer expenditure on the Age Pension. But this mooted change could put the brakes on that, she said. Constantly changing the rules and hitting retirees ...

Chief economist update: The uncertainty that is Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2018
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring ...

Staggering annuities can fund retirement shortfall

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
... seven short-term annuities with different providers. That involved looking at basic income needs, such as the gap between the Age Pension and account-based pensions for example, and calculating the portion that can be invested with an annuity provider. ...