News

International Shares, Investments

Emerging markets offer good value

emerging markets ESG

Emerging markets are undervalued and will be a source of good returns as ESG factors become more common.

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Pensions

Pension tax rules extension possible in death

pension death benefit

Concessional pension tax rules can apply to death benefit payments even if they are made out of an SMSF’s accumulation account.

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Investments

Wholesale investor change call lacks evidence

Wholesale investor definition

Calls to amend the wholesale investor test lack evidence of the harm the current threshold creates and ignore the voice of consumers.

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Investments

Magellan founder takes medical leave

Magellan founder leave

The head of Magellan Financial Group has stepped aside from his duties to take an undefined period of medical leave.

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ETFs

Two new ETFs from BetaShares

betashares etf

Investors will have new access to both the online retail and e-commerce sector, and the fixed income asset class after the release of two new ETFs.

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ATO

New insolvency laws affect SMSFs

insolvency SMSFs

Changes to insolvency laws mean the disqualification of corporate trustees can now occur in cases where restructuring takes place.

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ASIC, Cryptocurrency

SMSFs warned over crypto scams

ASIC cryptocurrency

Cryptocurrency investment scams trapping SMSFs with the promise of high returns have increased, according to ASIC.

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Business news

Listing pipeline strong after bumper year

IPO pipeline

The number of IPOs in early 2022 will be strong following the highest number of new floats in a decade during the past year.

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Compliance & Regulation

Compulsory wind-ups are very rare

SMSF wind-up

An SMSF wind-up is only compulsory in one situation, even though some trustee circumstances may appear to dictate this course of action is necessary.

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Direct Domestic Shares

Jaaims adds new portfolios

Jaaims portfolios

Jaaims has responded to investors’ call for further diversification by launching six new portfolios on its artificial intelligence trading platform.

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