An ageing population is bringing with it a range of challenges with significant implications for our family lifestyles, family finances and family relationships. Australian architects are winning awards for multi-generational housing – creatively designed for elderly parents and an adult child's family to live in close...
A new survey has found small business owners are at risk of watching their retirement plans fail, with SMEs underprepared when it comes to financial and contingency planning. The research, released by REST Industry Super, found that one in five SME owners are unable to fund their living expenses...
The Tax Office has announced it will be ramping up its focus on a range of issues related to superannuation, particularly as some suspicious strategies surface post-budget. Transfers of life interests in business real property to SMSFs are now firmly on the ATO’s radar, with these...
One of the property stories receiving a strong run is the recent auctioning of a rundown, free-standing cottage in suburban Sydney. This "renovator's dream" sold for $3.91 million - $910,000 above reserve. Continuing record-low interest rates are spurring Sydney and Melbourne homebuyers to pay prices that may...
SMSF trustees and professionals should be wary of a combination of problematic economic indicators which may spell trouble for investment markets. Deloitte’s latest economic business outlook report warns that “interest rates have been too low for too long, and bubbles are bubbling”. “Yet, today’s cheap money will linger....
At the end of 2015, Vanguard Senior Economist Roger Aliaga-Diaz, Ph.D., and Vanguard's Investment Strategy Group published an economic and market outlook for 2016 and beyond.
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Australian Government - Superannuation fact sheets
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This tax time, it's wise to be wary of the the ATO's program aimed at identifying lifestyle assets that have not been properly accounted for or taxed. It will be utilising data from a number of insurance companies to assess and identify the owners of these assets, allowing...
After the government announced it will be shaking up its budgetary super measures – including scrapping the $500,000 lifetime cap on non-concessional contributions – Rice Warner outlined a list of key “winners and losers” from the new proposals.
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He is also an accomplished presenter and educator
Co-authoring the popular investment book, Property vs Shares.