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1 week ago | 
afr.com | Lucy Dean |Andrew Hobbs |Michelle Bowes
Skip to navigationSkip to contentSkip to footerHelp using this website - Accessibility statementTrading platforms experienced record volumes earlier this week as retail investors – apparently unperturbed by the turmoil – bought bruised American tech stocks, global ETFs and gold. But by Thursday the impulse to “buy the dip” had switched to “sell the rip”, according to Gemma Dale, the director of SMSF and investor behaviour at Nabtrade, which notched up recording trading volumes on Monday.
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1 week ago | 
afr.com | Michelle Bowes
Apr 9, 2025 – 7.37pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? The majority of Australians have their retirement savings in a superannuation investment option dubbed “balanced” or “growth”. Typically, 60 per cent of the money will be invested in growth assets, such as shares, while the other 40 per cent is given over to defensive assets such as bonds. Loading...
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2 weeks ago | 
afr.com | Michelle Bowes
Apr 7, 2025 – 6.00pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Frustrated superannuation fund members have complained of being unable to access their accounts online to check balances or change investment options in the midst of market volatility.
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2 weeks ago | 
afr.com | Michelle Bowes
Apr 4, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? A sum of $706,806 at 55. That’s the average inheritance Australians receive and the age at which they get it. Such gifts are, of course, welcome.
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3 weeks ago | 
afr.com | Michelle Bowes
Mar 31, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? When 57-year-old IT specialist Denise Moloney first heard that for a payment of just $1750 she may qualify for a retirement pension from the UK government she suspected it was a scam.
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3 weeks ago | 
afr.com | Michelle Bowes
Mar 28, 2025 – 11.58am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Craig Scroggie’s Instagram account suggests he likes fast cars. Fortunately, he has the pay packet to match. The chief executive of data centre company NextDC is in line for a $50 million share windfall thanks to a generous long-term bonus deal he and other senior executives were granted in February.
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1 month ago | 
afr.com | Michelle Bowes
Mar 23, 2025 – 9.00pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? If you earn a total income of $375,378 a year or higher, congratulations; you are in Australia’s top 1 per cent of taxpayers. And if your total household gross income is above $531,652, your household earns more than 99 per cent of Australian households. Loading...
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1 month ago | 
afr.com | Michelle Bowes
Mar 21, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Most people would consider three siblings inheriting a home worth $3 million as a windfall. But what if – by investing a little time and money – they could increase the property’s value and thereby their inheritance?
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1 month ago | 
afr.com | Michelle Bowes
The Australian Taxation Office has sought leave to appeal a recent decision against it in relation to the taxation of family trusts to the High Court. In a landmark court victory, the full bench of the Federal Court last month ruled in favour of Melbourne accountant Steven Bendel, who maintained that certain payments owed by a trust to a corporate beneficiary should not be treated as loans for the purposes of Division 7A of the Tax Act, contrary to the ATO’s long-held view. Loading...
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1 month ago | 
afr.com | Michelle Bowes
Mar 13, 2025 – 5.41pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Thanks to a generous tax break introduced in 2022, sales of new electric vehicles made under a novated lease are booming.
