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Replace capital gains discount with income averaging: e61

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2026
... into higher tax brackets in a single year. Any reform must still address these two legitimate issues." e61 said a better system would reduce taxable capital gains by inflation and allow individuals to smooth their tax liability over the life of the asset ...

Advisers want to boost client book by 36%: CFS

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2025
... practices planning technology stack reviews, which is up to 28% from 22% in 2024. Nearly one third said they also want better system integration. "Advisers are also looking to reinvest their efficiency gains back into their businesses and clients. Beyond ...

WTL mergers three advice firms amid joint venture

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2025
WT Financial Group (WTL) is consolidating three financial advice practices - Titan Financial Planning, Darwin Financial Services and Wealth Connect Financial Services - after announcing its joint venture with Merchant Wealth Partners this week. The ...

Grattan Institute renews calls for best-in-show super funds, partial annuitisation

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2025
... Good-quality advice would steer most retirees towards annuitising some of their super anyway, just at more cost than better system guidance," Grattan said. Research shows that only 6% of Australians take up annuities, making Australia an "international ...

Wealth managers bracing for compensation claims

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAR 2023
A rise in compensation claims from clients is expected over failure to understand risk suitability and will lead to tougher regulation, research suggests. New research from Oxford Risk revealed 58% of wealth managers, who collectively manage assets ...

Defined benefits robbed women: Kelty

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2019
... 30% access to super but 5% got it. Our funds, our system was designed to ensure women had equality and had a much better system than they had before." He was clear that while the current super system offers women a better deal, it is far from perfect. ...

Banks put revenue above quality advice: FSU

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2018
Following today's round of hearings for the Royal Commission, the Finance Sector Union of Australia (FSU) noted that "banks had better systems in place to track incoming revenue than to make sure customers had been given the ongoing advice they were ...

CBA chair defends executive bonuses

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2017
The Commonwealth Bank is standing by the way it rewarded bonuses to senior executives between 2015 and 2016, the period it was made aware of potential anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism law breaches, a public inquiry has found. Commonwealth ...

Asset managers tested, remain optimistic: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 OCT 2017
Following years of high profit margins and revenues rising parallel to AUM growth, majority of asset managers remain undeterred about the radical changes sweeping the industry, latest research shows. About 78% of global asset managers canvassed in State ...

Super rules for women still unclear

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
... Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) released a report, The future of Australia's super: a new framework for a better system, and Greens MP Adam Bandt took up one of its recommendations by introducing The Sex Discrimination Amendment (Boosting Superannuation ...
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