SELF-MANAGED SUPER FUND

Financial planning

Australian Financial Services (AFS) will launch a private label MDA next month it says is aimed at driving down costs ahead of the introduction of the FOFA reforms....

Financial planning

The Federal Opposition has declared that repairing the Budget balance sheet will take priority over a higher Superannuation Guarantee....

Superannuation

There has been a growing interest in the use of strategies to acquire, subdivide, renovate or develop property using a self-managed super fund (SMSF). Aaron Dunn explains...

Financial planning

A former Dover Financial Advisers representative will spend three years out of the industry due to several concerns over advice he provided....

Superannuation

Self-managed super fund (SMSF) trustees should not be forced to do a full valuation on direct property holdings every year, according to the Self-Managed Super Fund Profe...

Superannuation

The large number of SMSF audits being conducted each year requires auditors to be appropriately competent....

Superannuation

The ATO has been urged to rethink its draft ruling on the taxation of pensions after death amid concerns it is being unfair and acting against the spirit of the tax laws....

Financial planning

Financial advisers have a more bullish outlook for investment markets in the new financial year compared to their clients, according to a Count Financial survey....

Superannuation

The number of investors allocating towards exchange-traded funds will increase 35 to 50 per cent in the next two years in the wake of the current proliferation of product...

Superannuation

The Government's draft guidelines on collectibles have left a range of questions unanswered....

Financial planning

Paritech has announced that it has signed Independent Capital Advisers to its TotalView wealth management platform....

Financial planning

Means testing for super members over 50 would be a failure on behalf of the Federal Government to address two of its three main policy objectives (lower revenue costs, si...

Financial planning

Perth-based financial services group Wealth Management Partners (WMP) has acquired a substantial stake in property advisory service REaffirm....

Superannuation

Dealer groups that want to increase their advisers' knowledge of self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) can now access a streamlined SMSF association membership and ac...

Superannuation

Super and accounting bodies have applauded the Australian Securities and Investments Commission's (ASIC's) guidelines on art and collectibles in self-managed super funds....

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