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$3m super tax will level playing field: Australia Institute

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2025
... inheritance. It is not the role of government to reduce taxation for the richest so they can pass on wealth to their children - especially given Australia has no inheritance tax of any kind." A new report from the Grattan Institute shows that Australians ...

Cbus to play key role in new Bluey movie

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 DEC 2024
... newly announced Bluey feature film, with the industry super fund a major backer of the movie's financier. Parents and children alike are today celebrating the news that the first animated feature film for Bluey is to be developed by BBC Studios and ...

New investment fund to drive gender equality

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2024
... fund, which will also direct 1% of its assets each year to non-profits that advance economic equality for women and their children in Australia. The fund will charge zero management or performance fees and requires a minimum investment amount of $250,000. ...

Treasury gives Tranche 2 reform package preview

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2024
... expressed interest in employing these advisers as a means of offering more affordable, simple advice to more clients or the children of clients. The existing anti-hawking provisions apply, and they will be limited to only dealing with customers who initiate ...

'New class of advisers' need clear-cut distinction: FAAA

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2024
... become the professional financial advisers of the future," she said. Advice practices can too leverage NCAs to advise children or the grandchildren of existing clients. "Advice firms should have this option. This provides a level playing field, enhances ...

Brighter Super makes fee, death benefit changes

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2024
... instance it will be paid to a qualifying spouse. If there is no qualifying spouse, it will be paid to one or more qualifying children. Where there is no qualifying children, the benefit will be paid to a legal representative and, if there is no representative ...

More guidance crucial for aged care transitions: AMP

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2024
... worried doing so will impact their finances severely. A further 40% are worried it will place a financial burden on their children. It also found that about 60% retirees preferred to age in the family home and half want to receive care in the home; about ...

Work-related training boosts pay and productivity: CEDA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2024
... federal level; and work to reverse declining literacy and numeracy skills among school students, ensuring disadvantaged children can meet the minimum standards necessary to enable learning in later life. "Done well, workplace training offers significant ...

Outdated super rule costs teens $10k at retirement

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 12 NOV 2024
... experience of Australia's super system from the start of their working lives," she said. "This is a modest investment for our children's future - adding just 0.03% to total employee costs. "SMC supports a phased transition and looks forward to working ...

$3.5tn wealth transfer scares Aussie advisers: Natixis

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2024
... from the fund manager, which found 45% of advisers are also concerned they won't retain assets from client's spouses or children following a transfer. Advisers reported retaining the assets 71% of the time when a spouse inherits, but this drops to just ...