As banks cease SMSF loans for residential property, alongside a downturn in the housing market and potential policy changes, trustees may benefit from looking to its indu...
The adoption of exchange traded funds among financial planners has continued to grow, with more than half of Australian planners now recommending index funds, according t...
Financial advisers and their clients are better judges of the appropriateness of self-managed superannuation funds, according to Six Park chief executive, Pat Garrett....
The deadline for obtaining a Legal Entity Identifier is imminent, Chris Donohue warns, and self-managed superannuation funds trading European assets and OTC derivates nee...
The Australian Securities and Investment Commission has disqualified and suspended a number of auditors of self-managed superannuation funds....
The SMSF Association has urged the Federal Government to mandate FASEA to increase self-managed superannuation fund education and advice standards....
Negative sentiment in the industry around Labor’s proposed franking dividends reform is still running high as Federal election predictions heat up, at least amongst advis...
The Australian Taxation Office has said that it’s already referred 37 SMSF auditors to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission since last June, as part of th...
The move to require specialist qualifications to give advice on SMSFs could come from the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority within two years, according to ...
Live polling at the SMSF Association National Conference has suggested that the number of clients seeking advice on SMSFs is decreasing, and that consumers’ desire to use...
The majority of advice given to self-managed superannuation fund clients isn’t compliant with the Best Interests Duty, as well as nearly 20 per cent risking causing finan...
The recommendation from the Royal commission to introduce a last resort compensation scheme for consumers suffering a financial loss from advice failures is a win for SMS...
The Royal Commission has laid groundwork to improve the financial services sector and build a more trusted industry, according to the SMSF Association....
Investors and self-managed super funds with exposure to the retail property market need to remain alert as the sector is expected to see a significant change....
Managed funds invested in international equities came on top in terms of the assets held by self-managed superannuation funds, according to an analysis conducted by Class...
What happened to the 700,000 million of MLC if $1.2 Billion was migrated to Expand but Expand had only 512 Million in in...
The judge was quite undrstanding! THEN AASSIICC comes along and closes him down!All you 15600 people who work in the bu...
How could that underestimate happen?usually the quote transfer straight into the SOA, and what on earth has the commissi...