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Estate Planning

Law of choice critical for estate planning

estate planning

Selecting the most appropriate legal jurisdiction to govern an SMSF is crucial to fortifying estate planning strategies from court challenges.

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Investments

Emerging markets offer long-term opportunities

emerging markets

Emerging markets are likely to offer very good investment opportunities in the longer term due to the demographic shift occurring in these regions.

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Documentation

Single email address a digital approval barrier

SMSF digital signature

SMSF trustees may be limited in their use of any measures allowing the use of digital signatures to approve fund documents due to their email set-ups.

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Investments

Fund managers must address greenwashing

investment greenwashing

Calls have been made for fund managers to improve their responsible investing processes to eliminate greenwashing from the industry.

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Infrastructure

Look overseas for infrastructure options

overseas infrastructure

Ongoing consolidation in the Australian essential infrastructure sector can be offset by investing in the growing international market.

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Documentation

The benefits of a corporate trustee

SMSF corporate trustee

SMSFs can be setup with either individual or corporate trustees but the latter has useful advantages which are ideally suited for the self-managed super sector.

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Retirement

SMSFs receive retirement income covenant exemption

retirement income covenant

SMSFs will not be bound by the proposed legislation requiring superannuation fund trustees to formulate a retirement income strategy for members.

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ATO

COVID-19 relief measures extended

COVID-19 relief ATO

The ATO has extended the COVID-19 compliance relief measures, confirming they will apply to SMSFs for the 2022 financial year as well.

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Residential Property

Property value growth hits 20-year peak

property value growth

The rate of increase in the value of Australian housing has hit a 20-year high even as monthly growth has softened recently.

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Contributions, Superannuation

Excess contribution change not a strategic break

excess contributions charge

The scrapping of the excess concessional contributions charge in the Your Future, Your Super laws is not an opportunity to gain a tax benefit.

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