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SMSF trustees suffer "unacceptably poor advice"

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2013
... is important that SMSF trustees develop and maintain an exit strategy." The submission paper quoted research by the University of New South Wales and Sydney University of Technology on more than 200,000 SMSFs between 2008 and 2010 which "shows that SMSF ...

Industry leaders urge Abbott to keep super rebate

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 12 NOV 2013
... Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees' Tom Garcia and Women in Super's Catherine Wood; and also academics from the University of New South Wales and the University of South Australia. The letter was published to coincide with the opening of ...

Cap scrap leaves tax abuses unanswered

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2013
... benefit from their self-education expenditure, and that the general body of taxpayers should not have to carry this," University of New South Wales associate professor Dale Boccabella said. "Travel on first class air fares and taxpayers staying in five ...

University academics to access advice research grants

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2013
University academics will be able to access financial planning research grants up to $5,000 under an agreement between the Financial Planning Education Council (FPEC) and the Financial Planning Association (FPA). The first round of the grants will be ...

Young shy away from joining advice industry

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2013
... educational content to those needs. "We need to provide more than one point of entry to the advice industry because the usual university points of entry are too low," Fox said. He added that there is a need for "balance between bringing people in through ...

Unthinkable

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 OCT 2013
... still capitalising on...greed and fear. But the more respected professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton University and former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, Alan Blinder, in his opinion piece on the Wall Street Journal wrote: "If ...

ANU fund adopts ethical investment guidelines

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
The $1 billion on-balance sheet Australian National University investment fund has announced it is modifying its investment guidelines to ensure investments it holds in the future will "minimise social injury". However, ANU chancellor and former minister ...

Cognitive function, consumption biggest SMSF risks

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2013
... scientific study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Dr Agnieszka Tymula of the University of Sydney and colleagues at New York University and Yale's School of Medicine that found people aged over 65 are more likely ...

Asset consultants "useless": Oxford University study

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 30 SEP 2013
... fact, recommended funds tend to perform worse than those which have not been recommended, a research by the Oxford University SaA-d Business School found. The investigation used survey data from US consultants with a combined share of 91% of the US investment ...

Australian giving grows by $248 million

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013
... according to an August report published by The Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). The Tax Deductible Giving in 2010-2011 report shows Australians gave a total of $2.21 billion in the ...