The superannuation industry urgently needs access to better data or it risks being subjected to recommendations or reports based on flawed data....
A key industry body has advocated for a spousal rollover measure for super fund members to allow couples to even out their balances to try to minimise the gender retireme...
SuperConcepts has warned that the Productivity Commission’s revision of the minimum viability threshold for SMSFs to $500,000 is misleading, saying a figure of half that ...
Treating self-managed superannuation funds differently to industry funds with respect to franking credits is un-Australian, according to financial services academic, Prof...
The SMSF Association is selling the message that you don’t need $1 million to set up a self-managed superannuation fund but regulatory uncertainty does represent a major ...
Assistant treasurer Stuart Robert has announced a plan to ensure that death benefits that include insurance proceeds are not subject to tax when rolled over to a new supe...
Self-managed superannuation funds should be excluded from the product design and distribution rules, according to the SMSF Association....
Labor’s proposed franking credits reforms are “flawed, inequitable and fail to meet the policy intent of improving the integrity of dividend imputation for all tax payers...
The clock is ticking for self-managed superannuation funds on a quarterly transfer balance cap schedule, with their first lodgement due in three weeks....
The SMSF Association has backed the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics’ decision to inquire into the franking credit proposal. ...
Amid continued debate over the Government’s triennial auditing proposal for SMSFs, the SMSF Association has warned that the change would not produce significant cost savi...
The SMSF Association has slammed the Productivity Commission’s (PC’s) findings on the cost effectiveness of self-managed super funds (SMSFs) as based on “fundamentally fl...
From my perspective, 40- 50% of people are likely going to be deeply unhappy about how long they actually live. ...
Super director remuneration ...
No doubt true, but most of it is still because over 45’s have been upgrading their houses with 30 year mortgages. Money ...