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12 January 2020

A 20-year investment growth story

At the end of 2018, after a dismal fourth quarter – in fact, the worst quarterly performance in seven years – the Australian share market closed at a two-year low.
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10 January 2020

Retire on your own terms and not the market’s

One of the biggest retirement challenges is ensuring that the savings accumulated during your working years lasts as long as you do.
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25 December 2019

Our Advent calendar for 2019

On behalf of all our staff we wish our clients a Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and a great holiday period.
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23 December 2019

The economic and investment outlook for 2020

The 2019 year has been unpredictable for investors, with weaker economic growth and ongoing geopolitical tensions leading to heightened volatility on investment markets.
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19 December 2019

You’ll be the life of the party when armed with this information!

Keeping up-to-date with this data will brighten up anyone's day.
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16 December 2019

Review queries retirement system understanding

The Retirement Income Review questioned if consumers understand the end purpose of the retirement system and if more needs to be done to make it clearer.
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13 December 2019

Retirement planning in 15 minutes a day

There are few things in today's world as certain as this. Ask anyone how they are and the answer you're likely to get is "I'm good. Busy. How are you?"
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10 December 2019

Eggs, baskets and diversified SMSF investment strategies

The ATO wants to ensure that, when an SMSF has a significant majority of its investments in a single asset class, the trustees have considered, as part of the investment strategy, the risks which could arise from that limited diversification.
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7 December 2019

New opportunities for employees to claim additional superannuation

Under the current rules, the maximum amount of “concessional” superannuation contributions that can be claimed is $25,000.00 per person per annum.
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5 December 2019

ATO provides further trustee instructions on myGovID

The ATO has provided further instructions for SMSF trustees and directors around how they can prepare their funds for the advent of the myGovID system early next year.
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28 November 2019

The main benefits of professional financial help.

Unfortunately, of recent times there has been no shortage of negative press, comment and sentiment about financial planners but what is the real picture?
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25 November 2019

Downsizer contributions offer more than meets the eye

Retiree clients looking to sell their property can often contribute more to their SMSF than expected through the government’s recently introduced downsizer contribution rules, due to the flexibility to split contributions between spouses and use them in conjunction with other contribution rules, according to Fitzpatricks Private Wealth.
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