News

ATO, Documentation

Tougher SAR stance applied

SMSF annual return enforcement

SMSF trustees who are failing to meet their legal obligation of lodging their fund’s annual return are to face new ATO enforcement procedures.

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ATO

Work test can be officially monitored

superannuation work test

The ATO has the ability to determine if people over the age of 66 who have made personal super contributions have satisfied the required work test.

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International Shares, Investments

Don’t ignore quality stocks

growth value stocks

Quality equities should not be disregarded in the debate on whether growth or value stocks currently offer the best investment opportunities.

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Compliance & Regulation, Superannuation

Trustees largely overlook new duty

financial interest duty

Trustees seem to have been slow in adopting measures to document how they are considering complying with the best financial interest duty.

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Fixed Income, Investments

Global recovery creates bond value

global recovery bonds

The outlook for yields from global bonds remains positive off the back of the recovery of investment markets, but COVID variants could derail that view.

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Australian Shares, Technology

Warning over social media market manipulation

social media stock

ASIC has warned market manipulation tactics on social media platforms to coordinate ‘pump and dump’ activity in listed stocks can be considered illegal trading activity.

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Investments

Asia-Pacific dividend fund launched

Asia-Pacific dividend fund

A boutique investment manager has launched a fund focused on companies in the Asia-Pacific region that can sustain and grow dividend distributions.

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ATO

Super Fund Lookup revised

Super Fund Lookup ATO

A new procedure is now being applied to newly established SMSFs and how the ATO reflects their status on the Super Fund Lookup website.

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Superannuation

Cashless rollovers SuperStream exempt

SuperStream rollovers

Unlike cash superannuation rollovers, those involving in specie asset transfers do not have to be executed via the SuperStream system for SMSFs.

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ETFs

Semiconductor ETF launched

Semiconductor ETF

ETF Securities has announced the launch of an ETF on the ASX using the semiconductor industry as the underlying asset.

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