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ATO pushes back SMSF returns deadline

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 15 MAY 2017
... addition to providing advice to clients about the changes, ATO deputy commissioner James O'Halloran said. "Accountants, tax agents and SMSF advisers play a key role in ensuring that their SMSF clients are ready for the changes on July 1. They will ensure ...

No 'Plan B' for Brexit "twist and turns"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2017
... balanced by rising net trade and investment. The outlook for global activity continues to improve. Business surveys and Bank Agents' reports imply that business investment growth is likely to be higher in 2017 than previously projected. The stronger ...

Another Budget, another promised surplus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAY 2017
... dependent on many moving parts. It's hard enough to control the domestic economy's behaviour - i.e. the reaction of economic agents - business, consumer, investor and government - of the budget measures themselves. Throw in assumptions for global growth ...

Obamacare one, Trump nil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 MAR 2017
... improving over the oh so many years that Obamacare had been in existence. The problem is that financial markets and economic agents have tied the repeal of Obamacare to progress in Trump's pro-growth agenda. The disappointment was palpable. The S&P 500 ...

Professional standards need deeper thought: Consultant

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAR 2017
... "the elephant in the room." "The Corporations Amendment (Professional Standards of Financial Advisers) Act 2017 focuses on agents, rather than principals, and their focus is deliberate. In fact, their emphasis on professional standards is an implicit ...

More fires than hires

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2017
... starting 24 March - because its targeted at the property market and should not affect interest rates on other economic agents. The hope is that this would gently cool the property market. The risk is... the property market freezes.

Estate agents to become RG146 certified

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2017
Real estate agents who provide financial advice around property investment can now undertake a new training course as part of a wider strategy to professionalise the industry. The new RG146 Advice in Real Estate Course has been made available through ...

Guest of honour

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 3 JAN 2017
... that professional accountants should be giving investment advice rather than salespeople," he says. "Back then it was life agents, friendly society people, unlisted property trusts... The market as it was then has more or less disappeared, but it was ...

ClearView welcomes new strategic shareholder

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2016
... personal pension and numerous other endowment products. Products are mainly distributed through more than 4,600 'Lifeplanner' agents.

Advisers urged to meet challenges together

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2016
... the personal example of her own father who ran a successful life insurance business in the 1970s, where, alongside five agents, he sold life insurance, funeral plans and health insurance to customers. "It was simple. Your purpose was to sell insurance ...