News

Trustees largely overlook new duty

September 24, 2021

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

read more

Fixed Income, Investments

Global recovery creates bond value

September 24, 2021

Jason Spits

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.

read more

Australian Shares, Technology

Warning over social media market manipulation

September 24, 2021

Tia Thomas

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.

read more

Investments

Asia-Pacific dividend fund launched

September 24, 2021

Tia Thomas

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

read more

ATO

Super Fund Lookup revised

September 10, 2021

Darin Tyson-Chan

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

read more

Superannuation

Cashless rollovers SuperStream exempt

September 10, 2021

Darin Tyson-Chan

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

read more

ETFs

Semiconductor ETF launched

September 10, 2021

Tia Thomas

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

read more

Investments

Market correction preparation needed

September 10, 2021

Darin Tyson-Chan

SMSF investors have been advised to revisit their equities holdings in anticipation of a market correction forecast to occur in the short term.

read more

NALI/NALE

Pro bono work not automatically NALE

September 10, 2021

Darin Tyson-Chan

The provision of pro bono services to an SMSF is not automatically outlawed by the NALE rules as defined by the ATO in LCG 2012/2.

read more

Direct Domestic Shares, Investments

Bank dividends underestimated

September 10, 2021

Jason Spits

Australian banks are in a good position to grow their earnings and therefore pay dividends after protecting themselves from the worst of last year’s downturn.

read more