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An industry lawyer has urged SMSF practitioners to carefully scrutinise any life insurance arrangements …..

It is understandable that the continuing widespread coverage of key federal Budget proposals for super may distract some …..

Among the pitfalls of saving and investing for retirement is to mislead ourselves about the true state of our finances.

See below for key points in this update and the report itself.

Ideally, we would enter retirement with our home mortgages paid off and completely free of any other kind of debt.

Ideally, we would enter retirement with our home mortgages paid off and completely free of any other kind of debt.

The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) retirement standard for the December quarter shows living costs for retirees have risen once again.

Home videos of animals or babies often seem to go viral on the internet. But have you heard about a list of personal finance tips going viral on the net?

The ATO has stressed the importance of clearly distinguishing SMSF assets, with some funds losing assets to lenders following personal debts because they were not recorded correctly.

The ATO interpretative decisions and tax determinations on this issue refer to contributions being allocated to an “unallocated contribution account”.