Articles by Darin Tyson-Chan

International Shares, Investments

Outperformance requires global market investments

Investing in global markets is necessary for investors to take advantage of the widest range of opportunities that will allow them to experience performance above index-generated returns, an active high-conviction fund manager has said.

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Compliance & Regulation, Retirement

Disregarded small fund asset awareness needed for ECPI

SMSF trustees need to consider the new rules pertaining to disregarded small fund assets when assessing whether an actuarial certificate will be needed to claim exempt current pension income (ECPI), an industry technical expert has said.

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Investments

All Ordinaries index not most useful

The monitoring of Australian equities performance can be performed in a more meaningful manner by using an alternative measure to the All Ordinaries Index, a leading economist has suggested.

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Strategy

Fidelity embarks on active ETF strategy

International fund manager Fidelity has implemented a strategy to introduce a series of active exchange-traded funds into the market with the express view of assisting SMSF investors achieve better portfolio diversification.

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Business news

Intergenerational estate planning requires varied pension strategy

Trustees should look to use a dual pension arrangement to achieve better intergenerational estate planning outcomes within their SMSFs, a strategy specialist has proposed.

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Strategy

Infrastructure investments must avoid sovereign risk

SMSF trustees looking to invest in infrastructure via a fund manager must examine the nature of the underlying assets in the portfolio to ensure they are not exposed to sovereign risk, according to a specialist investment house.

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Investments

Bond universe bigger than shares

The size of the global bond market compared to the global equities market suggests it has the ability to offer SMSF trustees a wider variety of opportunities to invest in companies and governments, a fixed income manager has said.

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Insurance, Retirement, Strategy

Life cover paid from pension can be TBC bonus

Holding life insurance cover inside an SMSF and funding the premiums from a reversionary account-based pension can give a surviving spouse the ability to establish an income stream well in excess of the $1.6 million dictated by the transfer balance cap (TBC), a technical manager has said.

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Residential Property

DomaCom gets Federal Court victory

Fractional property investment house DomaCom has had the full Federal Court hand down a favourable decision with regard to the leasing to a related party of a property held in a sub-fund where an SMSF is the owner of units in the sub-fund.

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ETFs, Fixed Income, International Shares

Industry’s best recognised

The 2018 SMSF Service Provider Awards, co-hosted by smstrusteenews and research house CoreData, have given trustees the opportunity to acknowledge the firms considered to have provided the best offerings in the sector throughout the year.

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