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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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Commercial Property, Residential Property

Property looking good in Parramatta

RiskWise Property Research has forecast solid capital growth in the medium to long-term for property located in Parramatta despite a recent downturn in the Sydney real estate market.

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Compliance & Regulation

SMSF must keep constant NALI watch

SMSF trustees must be mindful of the new non-arm’s-length income (NALI) rules when assessing fund strategies so as not to pay maximum levels of taxation, a sector expert has warned.

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Investments, LICs

New LIC to provide overseas investment opportunities

Australian boutique fund manager Tribeca Investment Partners has today opened its initial public offering (IPO) for a new listed investment company (LIC), Tribeca Global Natural Resources.

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International Shares, Investments

Global equity dividends jump significantly

Dividends paid across overseas markets increased by 12.9 per cent in the June quarter, measured by year-on-year results, according to the Janus Henderson Global Dividend Index.

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Compliance & Regulation

SMSF SuperStream draft laws released

Treasury has released its exposure draft to amend the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Regulations 1994 (SISR) to extend the operation of SuperStream to capture SMSFs, with the consultation period now open.

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ATO

ATO recognises market-linked pension anomaly

The ATO has announced a common-sense solution to the unintended consequences of its treatment of situations where a market-linked pension has been commuted and subsequently restarted in relation to an individual’s transfer balance cap.

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Residential Property

Property now an income play

Individuals looking to invest in property over the next couple of years should do so to generate income as opposed to capital growth, according to a property fund manager.

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