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Panic selling of SMSF assets 'totally unnecessary'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2025
... extreme as some think. Hamilton 21 managing director Richard McDougall said while the tax is controversial, franked dividends may become an efficient way to manage tax inside a large super account. "Division 296 will apply regardless of how a fund generates ...

Lendlease looks at royal joint venture

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2025
... Crown Estate - King Charles' property company in the United Kingdom. In line with the property giant's strategy announced in May 2024, Lendlease said it is aiming to accelerate the release of capital from international development through capital partnering ...

Advice bodies want efficiency, long-term solutions from Mulino

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2025
... Financial Outcomes (DBFO) will be prioritised. Mulino was sworn in as assistant treasurer and minister for financial services on May 13, filling in the position previously held by Stephen Jones. Mulino's vast experience and academic qualifications ...

Benchmark-clinging passive investors risk meagre returns: Perpetual

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2025
... Matt Sherwood has warned that passive investors banking on a repeat of the past 15 years of very strong global equity returns may be sleepwalking into a decade of disappointment. Sherwood said the past decade of US exceptionalism, marked by the extraordinary ...

Vision Super defends new but 'archaic' policy

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2025
... contact us to complete the account-related discussion." Looking at the Privacy Act, APP 8.19 also outlines that an entity may disclose personal information to an overseas recipient if the entity reasonably believes that the recipient is "subject to a ...

HESTA sells out of MinRes after failed engagement

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025
... long-term returns to our members, and believe selling our remaining holdings was in their best interests at this time. We may reconsider our position if circumstances change." Santos, WiseTech, and Woodside remain on HESTA's watchlist.

'Lunatic' tariffs can directly hit Australia: Academics

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025
... policy that's now being pursued in an atmosphere of great uncertainty and unpredictability..." While the tariff impact may not be as acute for Australia compared to other countries, Evans predicts that the economic risk "that could really, really ...

US financial market dominance can't last indefinitely: MSCI

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025
... stocks, perhaps driven by policy actions and optimism about DeepSeek," he said. "In Europe, positive equity market performance may have been driven by a sense among some investors that Europeans were willing to break free of some of their self-imposed ...

Ascent Investment mastermind cops 33 criminal charges

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025
... Michael Dunjey, the mastermind behind a $149 million alleged Ponzi scheme, has been charged with 33 criminal offences. On May 9, the Perth Magistrates Court charged Dunjey, the director of Ascent Investment and Coaching, with 23 counts of fraud under ...

HESTA members to keep paying fees as disruption continues

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025
... services. "We're continuing to support our members through this period of change as we know that, while in the short-term it may be challenging, this transition will provide the technology platform and data capabilities to better service our members ...