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Welcome to our quarterly magazine. In this edition:
- Five ways to smarten up your SMSF
- The secret lives of bonds
- Do investment properties really add up?
- Making the most of lower interest rates
- Six secrets of successful investors
- Want to control diabetes? Check your plate
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inTouch Q1 2016 – click here
Welcome to our quarterly magazine. In this edition:
- Time to consider alternatives
- The case for alternatives just got stronger
- Will you lose your pension benefits?
- The value of advice on budgeting and cashflow management
- New changes to the aged care rules
- The secret to living longer
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inTouch Q4 2015 – click here
Welcome to our quarterly magazine. In this edition:
- Leadership change and the impact on the Federal Budget measures
- To hike, or not to hike?
- The ‘China effect’ and what it means for global growth
- Minimising the impact of new pension changes
- Health and wellness holidays
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Welcome to the October edition of e-Insight. This month we cover:
- New Social Security rates and thresholds from 20 September 2015
- New aged care fees and thresholds from 20 September 2015
- Lost member account thresholds increased
- Look through tax treatment for LRBAs
New Social Security rates and thresholds from 20 September 2015
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Welcome to our quarterly magazine. In this edition -
• Wealthy retirees to be hit hardest by the pension changes
• Young parents need $1 million life cover
• A pitfall of the new Terminal Medical Condition of Release rules
• Don’t be distracted by Greece, it’s all about China
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Welcome to the August edition of e-Insight. This month we cover:
- Aged care – minimum permissible amount
- ATO form for contribution reserving strategy
- ATO issue Division 293 tax assessments for Defined Benefit schemes
- FBT exempt thresholds increased
Aged care – minimum permissible amount
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Greece succumbs to Stein’s law. Other countries, including Australia, could too
Herbert Stein (1916 to 1999) was a US economist who was influential in his time. Among his achievements, Stein was chairman of the president-guiding Council of Economic Advisers under Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, was attached to the American Enterprise Institute think tank, contributed to The Wall Street Journal and taught at the University of Virginia.
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Welcome to the June edition of e-Insight. This month we cover:
- New private health insurance rebate thresholds from 1 April 2015
- ATO pre-assessment letters for excess concessional contributions
- Labor Party release proposed changes to superannuation
- Reminder to claim franking credits for retirees
- End of year financial planning
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Superannuation contribution caps for 2015/16
The concessional and non-concessional contributions caps for the 2015/16 financial year have not changed from the 2014/15 financial year. As a reminder, these rates are as follows:
| 2014/15 | 2015/16 | |
| General concessional contributions cap | $30,000 | $30,000 |
| Higher concessional contributions cap (for persons aged 50 or over at the end of the financial year) | $35,000 | $35,000 |
| Non-concessional contributions cap | $180,000 | $180,000 |
| Non-concessional contributions cap – bring forward | $540,000 | $540,000 |
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Why the global savings glut boosts the case for global equities
What determines the level of real interest rates? The principles of orthodox monetary policy are so well entrenched as to be virtually sacrosanct. Yet, as the timing of the first US rate rise is pushed out again, it is pertinent to question the validity of bedrock monetary assumptions after five years of record low interest rates.
