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Telstra Super lures members with SMSF lookalike

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
Corporate super fund Telstra Super has launched a new investment platform offering members direct access to term deposits and shares, in a move to retain members who might otherwise set up self-managed super funds (SMSFs). The investment option, called ...

Rate cut impacts SMSFs, retirees

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2013
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) decision to cut the cash rate by 25 basis points may impact self-managed super funds (SMSF) and retirees, meaning that financial advisers may have to work with them to seek other sources of income. Retirees and SMSFs ...

ASFA calls for clarity on Labor's super law freeze

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2013
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia has called on the government to clarify whether the announced but yet-to-be-legislated superannuation reforms will be dropped as part of Labor's promise of a five-year super tax freeze. ASFA chief ...

Advisers warned: take sequencing risk seriously

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2013
Sequencing risk can have a "catastrophic impact" on self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs), according Michael E. Drew, Professor of Finance at Griffith University and partner at Drew, Walk & Co. Speaking at the SMSF Professionals' Association of ...

Breaking Australia's love affair with the lump sum

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2013
As the population ages, Australia's three-pillar retirement system will find itself under unprecedented pressure. According to MTAA Super chief executive Leeanne Turner, over the next decade about four million Australians will retire. An integral part ...

Generation Y busts SMSF age myth

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2013
Increasing numbers of people under 30 are setting up - or plan to set up - self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs), according to a new study by Macquarie Bank and the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA). The study found that 8.1% of ...

Self-education cap "short sighted": SPAA

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2013
The SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) has criticised the Government's proposal to cap tax deductions for professional self-education at $2000. SPAA said that the decision is "short-sighted and self-defeating" and said that a self-managed ...

SMSF 'Boost Camp' 2013 gets underway July 23

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013
Sydney will host the first day of the 2013 SPAA State Technical 'Boost Camp' Series on Tuesday 23 July, at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre in Darling Harbour. The event, organised by the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) ...

ECT relief should apply to non-concessional contributions: SPAA

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2013
Amendments to the excess contributions tax (ECT) should be extended to include non-concessional contributions, according to SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) chief executive Andrea Slattery. Amendments to the Fairer Taxation of Excess ...

Super tax concession policy 'fatally flawed': SPAA

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2013
The SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) chief executive Andrea Slattery has said current methodology used to measure superannuation tax concessions is "fatally flawed", as it does not take the entire retirement system into account. She ...