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Vanguard appoints Australian active team head

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2017
Vanguard appointed the head of its Australian quantitative equity group (QEG) as part of an expansion to its Melbourne team. Michael Roach will lead the Australian QEG, having previously been a quantitative equities portfolio manager for Vanguard in ...

SMSFA supports quarterly reporting proposal

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 22 AUG 2017
The Australian Tax Office's decision to offer a quarterly option as part of a position paper on event-based reporting for the transfer balance cap has been endorsed by the SMSF Association. SMSF Association (SMSFA) chief executive John Maroney says ...

Investors short on tax-effective structures: Centuria Life

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 17 AUG 2017
Changes to superannuation and news Bill Shorten has discretionary family trusts in his sights is making investors worried about their investment future. Centuria Life general manager Neil Rogan says if family trusts are taxed at 30%, as per Bill Shorten's ...

Wage freeze

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 AUG 2017
The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) 'Wage Price Index' report for the June quarter confirmed what we, Australians all, already know...wages growth remains sluggish. Even market consensus got it on point. Growth in total wages stood still at a ...

Wages separate businesses from consumers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 AUG 2017
Not happy Jan! This is the collective cry of Australian consumers according to the latest Westpac-Melbourne Institute consumer sentiment survey. Yet only a day before, the NAB business survey showed that business conditions in July were at their best ...

New Zealand advice industry to be overhauled

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2017
The New Zealand government is looking to remove the distinction between class and personal advice, as well as allow the provision of digital advice as it seeks to overhaul the country's regulatory regime for financial advisers. The Financial Services ...

First home super scheme may not make it to parliament in 2018

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 8 AUG 2017
... insurance related purposes," AIST said. "The FHSSS is not consistent with this objective, nor is it consistent with the Bill (currently before Parliament) which proposes to enshrine an objective of superannuation." The Financial Planning Association ...

Discretionary trusts crackdown short-sighted

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2017
The Labor government's proposed crackdown on discretionary trusts is "short-sighted" and "anti-family" given the broader tax system isn't operating on a level playing field, an industry expert says. In response to Opposition Leader Bill Shorten proposing ...

Class action on the cards for ASX healthcare firm

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 1 AUG 2017
An ASX-listed healthcare company is facing a potential class action from shareholders, including major Australian fund managers, following a 37% fall in share price. William Roberts Lawyers has alleged that Sirtex Medical, which manufactures and distributes ...

Labor cracks down on discretionary trusts

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 31 JUL 2017
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten is cracking down on high-income earners exploiting a trust loophole that minimises tax bills. The Labor leader is pledging to impose a minimum 30% tax rate on the distributions of discretionary trusts to beneficiaries ...