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Kearney Group earns top planning award

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
... streams. Kearney Financial Planning offers holistic planning, investment, risk management, debt finance, accounting, taxation and business advisory services. During the last year the group said it has focused on improving the client experience and employee ...

Ministers backed to raise super contribution

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2011
... superannuation levy for Ministers of Religion from 9 per cent to 11 per cent. There have been concerns that due to unique taxation arrangements to help churches afford full-time pastors, ministers are unable to generate enough super savings during their ...

Extra year for tax related overhauls

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011
... tax system MITs will be allowed to carry forward under and over distributions into the next income year without adverse taxation consequences under a new '0.4 of 1 per cent of net assets' test. "The proposed test is superior to the 'prescribed dollar ...

LGA names chief exec

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
... management experience. He is also a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia and is a Fellow of the Taxation Institute of Australia. "Lowenhaupt Global Advisors Australia has an outstanding opportunity to meet the increasingly sophisticated ...

ASIC new guidance for AFSL

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2011
... such as significant product features and benefits, significant risks, how the investment is managed, fees and costs and taxation while complying with shorter, simpler PDS disclosure. ASIC have said that the information included should only be relevant ...

SMSFs avg balances hit $1m

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 28 MAR 2011
... sector is still driven by myths. An analysis the researcher conducted into SMSF figures available from the Australian Taxation Office and the superannuation regulator APRA revealed that the average fund is now near $1 million with an average member balance ...

Govt claims MRRT as super victory

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
... (MRRT) revenues would go towards building superannuation savings. "The revenue from the MRRT will help offset the loss of taxation revenue from increasing incentives to save through superannuation," he said. A spokesman for the Assistant Treasurer said ...

Super on table for October tax review

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2011
... the implementation of FoFA," he said. "The area of superannuation needs confidence, needs stability and needs to have a taxation program in place that doesn't change every year or every other year." Assistant Treasurer Bill Shorten's office said it believes ...

Super heavyweights reach out to younger members

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2011
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) hosted a roundtable for superannuation heavyweights yesterday as it prepares for its sponsorship of Youth Week in April, aimed at engaging younger Australians and their super. Held yesterday, the forum involved representatives ...

Self-directed investors challenge industry giants

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 14 FEB 2011
... Access to Financial Advice report. Growth in the self-directed channel is already creating tensions in a regulatory and taxation regime primarily built around pooled investment management. But resistance to this trend could only spur a public backlash ...