'Tis the Season of Giving - making and deducting charitable donations

With an estimated 80% of the Australian population donating to charity each year, we are clearly a nation of givers. Surprisingly, though, many people forget to include their donations as deductions at tax time.

Here are some guidelines about what consider when donating and making claims, and what you need to include as evidence to help us prepare your tax return.

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Belinda Frazer
Understanding Alternative Beta

A diversified Alternative Beta program is a mix of simple, well justified strategies, seeking to deliver persistent excess returns with scalable capacity, while exhibiting low correlation to traditional equity and fixed income benchmarks.

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Belinda Frazer
Use your SMSF to teach your kids about finance

Having your children involved in managing their finances and being responsible for the decisions they may make (both legally as well as personally) is a great way to make them more accountable for their saving and investment decisions. And if they can do that in the safety of an SMSF environment where they have you as co-trustees, hopefully the disciplines can also spread to their other financial decisions outside of the SMSF environment.

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Belinda Frazer