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Edition 22

  • 5 July 2013

ATO draws a line on SMSF compliance, economic growth does not help shares, an SMSF inequity, super strategies, more on risk management, and a letter from an old rocker.

It’s time to industrialise every SMSF

Every SMSF should have 'industrial strength' administration that is timely, accurate, honest and in conformity with a vast array of rules and regulations.

Economic growth does not drive stock market returns

The widely-held belief that good economic growth should be good for share prices, and low economic growth bad for them, is often demonstrated to work in reverse.

An SMSF inequity that cries out for attention

It is inequitable for the ATO to require an SMSF to make advance payments of the estimated tax for the year, but not pay refunds in advance based on estimated franking credits.

Look at super with different eyes

Thinking differently about how to get the best out of your super means taking time to talk through the options that meet your personal needs, and making it work for you. And don't associate 'pension' with 'old age'.

Simple investment risk management – this is the risk issue we need to talk about

Aspiring to best practices in risk management is not simply a matter of calculating volatility or risk reporting. It is critical to protecting financial outcomes.

Dear friends, colleagues and fellow rockers

The affordability of seeing a movie, or cost of driving to the movie theatre, has not changed much over the 32 year period from 1981 to 2013. But the same cannot be said for ticket prices of concerts featuring aging rockers.

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