FS Advice - 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 ... 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 ... Read more

How government benefits can assist when growing a family

SAM 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... Read more

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Super tax strategies a hot topic ELIZABETH MCARTHUR AMP's technical superannuation adviser support team saw a rise in the number of advisers querying tax deductions for personal superannuation contributions last month.	One third of Australians trust robo-advice ELIZABETH MCARTHUR New research reveals about 30% of Australians would trust a robot to offer them financial advice over a financial adviser.

Former NAB adviser charged JAMIE WILLIAMSON A former NAB financial adviser has been charged with two offences following an investigation by ASIC.	ASIC bans Gold Coast adviser ELIZABETH MCARTHUR ASIC has banned a Gold Coast financial adviser from providing financial services for six years.

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The life insurance industry in Australia is in trouble

The Royal Commission's recommendation that life insurance sales should not be rewarded with a commission or a payment from the product provider to the ...

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From sales culture to profession: What the final report means for the financial advice industry

For financial advisers the winds of change were blowing prior to the establishment of the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation ...

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Give an inch, take a mile

What have we learned from the final report of the Royal Commission (RC) handed down by Justice Kenneth Hayne? Before the Royal Commission, much of the ...

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On beta-adjusted alpha: understanding active managers

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