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TAL goes back-to-back at AFA awards

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2019
TAL went back-to-back, winning the Association of Financial Advisers' Life Company of the Year award for a second year running in Sydney recently. The life insurer took home the top gong as Platinum Winner of the AFA Life Company of the Year Award ...

Chief economist update: The RBA capitulates

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2019
N-E-U-T-R-A-L! It was a hard slog swimming against the tide, but this space has finally been vindicated by RBA Governor Philip Lowe's change of heart with regards to guidance on Australian monetary policy. The next move in "interest rates is likely ...

The problem the Productivity Commission is trying to fix

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
Australia's superannuation sector in trying to digest the Productivity Commission's 700-page report with its 31 recommendations need to keep in mind the massive structural problems it is trying to fix. The fundamental problem that has perplexed ...

Chief economist update: Australian dollar loss is economy's gain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2018
"I got chills, they're multiplying..." - Grease The Australian dollar is down! Repeat, the Australian dollar is down! At the time of writing, Australia's legal tender is trading 5.8% lower against the US this year to date; 3.2% cheaper against ...

Leave dividend imputation system as is: Plato

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2018
... said the crackdown would severely affect retirees; this worry however, was slightly appeased when Labor announced it would shield pensioners and allowance recipients from the abolition of the dividend franking credit rebate under its Pensioner Guarantee ...

Government consults on super access for victims of crime

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2018
... the implementation of a new claw-back mechanism for 'out of character' super contributions made by criminals in order to shield assets from use as compensation. It is also proposing to allow access to a perpetrator's super by victims of serious, violent ...

Crime victims should receive super access: Poll

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 9 APR 2018
... the end of 2018. "For too long those people who have perpetrated these horrific crimes have been able to hide behind a shield whereby they would not give access to their superannuation assets to their victims because of the laws that are currently in ...

Industry welcomes pensioners' dividend tax policy exemption: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2018
... super funds (SMSFs) to significantly benefit, Bowen said. Last week, Bowen introduced the Pensioner Guarantee policy to shield pensioners and allowance recipients from the abolition of the dividend franking credit rebate if it commences in July 2019. ...

Victims of crime to receive super access

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2018
... end of the year. "For too long those people who have perpetrated these horrific crimes have been able to hide behind a shield whereby they would not give access to their superannuation assets to their victims because of the laws that are currently in ...

ARCO Investment Management launches new strategy

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2017
... selling short securities that we believe are priced well above their underlying values," he said. The fund is designed to shield investors from downside equity risk when equity markets are flat to falling while still growing wealth over time and its ...