Volume 1 Number 3

Volume 1 Issue 3

Applied Financial Planning

Take action now to achieve your succession goals

STEVEN DAVISON | Comments | SUNDAY, 1 JAN 2006

Many financial advisers associate succession with selling their business and exiting the industry, rather than with building a business that will live beyond its current owners. This lack of planning ... Many ... Read more

Selling the practice

DOUGLAS WEBBER | Comments | SUNDAY, 1 JAN 2006

It's often said that plumbers have the leakiest taps in the street and cobbler's children have no shoes. Likewise, from my experience, many financial planners have shortcomings in a major issue ... It's ... Read more

How government benefits can assist when growing a family

SAMMY RUBIN | Comments | SUNDAY, 1 JAN 2006

Australia's generation X and Y are now getting married and having children later compared to their parents' generation. From 1975 to 1980 the average age for mothers having their first child ... Read more

Investment

Investing today versus the 80s and 90s

HAROLD SHAPIRO | Comments | SUNDAY, 1 JAN 2006

Australians have always been savvy investors, scrutinising investment options and tailgating the trends. Yesteryear it was large pooled super funds, which then moved to self-managed super funds with ... Read more

Investing in direct property for better investment performance

RICHARD STACKER | Comments | SUNDAY, 1 JAN 2006

Direct property investments are unlisted managed funds investing in properties built for business, such as office, retail, industrial and other specialist sectors like hotels and hospitals. A growing ... Direct ... Read more

Insurance bonds re-invented - a tax paid master fund

ROSS HIGGINS | Comments | SUNDAY, 1 JAN 2006

Financial advisers have a new way to improve after-tax investment performance for higher taxed clients. By using imputation bonds, they can combine the long-established taxation benefits of an insurance ... Financial ... Read more

Superannuation

Self-managed superannuation funds investing in property

GRAEME COLLEY | Comments | SUNDAY, 1 JAN 2006

As a segment of the superannuation industry, self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) display a wide range of characteristics. Some have investment portfolios with highly diversified arrangements traded ... As ... Read more

Major super announcements from the Treasurer

DAVID SHIRLOW | Comments | SUNDAY, 1 JAN 2006

Essentially, the plan remains as previously announced, but the new details do indicate a change of position on some proposals as well as a welcome clarification of other proposals (albeit in some cases ... Essentially ... Read more

The challenges facing SMSF investors

GILES CRAIG | Comments | SUNDAY, 1 JAN 2006

The word "challenge" has several connotations. For many investors, the challenge of running a self-managed super fund (SMSF) is one to be relished. The challenge is to beat the professionals ... The ... Read more

Increased death benefits The potential for anti-detriment payments

MARTIN BRECKON | Comments | SUNDAY, 1 JAN 2006

What are "anti-detriment benefits"? On the death of a superannuation fund member, certain death benefit recipients may be eligible to receive a top-up amount on their share of the benefit amount ... What ... Read more

Taxation & Estate Planning

ESOPs as business, financial and estate planning vechicles

JOHN DAY | Comments | SUNDAY, 1 JAN 2006

Employee share ownership plans (ESOPs) provide participating employees with an ownership stake in their company and an opportunity to reap the rewards emanating from that ownership. ESOPs also provide ... Employee ... Read more

Federal Budget has little impact on high effective marginal tax rate

BENEDICT DAVIES | Comments | SUNDAY, 1 JAN 2006

The Treasurer's 11th Budget was headlined by the announcement that the top two rates of tax are to be cut by 2 cents in the dollar and the tax brackets are to be uplifted. However, there were only ... The ... Read more

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FASEA reveals October exam results KARREN VERGARA The majority of financial advisers who sat the most recent exam passed, according to the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority.	Advice for all could add $630bn to economy JAMIE WILLIAMSON If all Australians were to receive financial advice and properly implement that advice, the economy would grow by $630 billion a year while Age Pension spending would go down by more than 20%, new research shows.

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