ASIC has disqualified a third person this week from being an approved self-managed super fund auditor....
ASIC has disqualified Abe Samuel from being approved as an SMSF auditor on the grounds of a breach in auditor independence requirements. ...
Manoj Abichandani has been disqualified from being an approved SMSF auditor by ASIC after providing deliberately misleading statements....
ASIC has secured orders permanently restraining a real estate group from encouraging clients to establish an SMSF in order to invest in property....
Robo-advice today is “not holistic” and cannot be considered as personalised advice, according to Rebecca Sullivan, co-founder of SMSFCheck....
ASIC is investigating reports of property developers offering advisers commissions to encourage SMSFs to invest in their projects....
Limited recourse borrowing arrangements do not necessarily have to be limited in opportunity for self-managed super fund trustees but there are various requirements to ad...
Accountants are faced with growing pressure to remain relevant or risk becoming “obsolete” in the face of cloud-based and self-service accounting tools, RSM believes....
Increasing numbers of SMSF trustees are turning to direct property investments offering yields of more than twice those available through term deposits, Charter Hall reve...
Despite willingness from SMSF trustees to move from cash to other global investment options, lack of financial advice and education was preventing them from doing so. ...
A former Perth-based financial adviser has been permanently banned from the financial services industry over her conduct in advising SMSF clients....
Many accountants are sitting on the hands not knowing what to do ahead of the expiry of the Accountants’ Exemption, according to one AFSL holder....
With Government attention firmly focused on meeting Australia’s growing infrastructure needs, now is the “opportune time” to open up infrastructure investment to the SMSF...
Count Financial tells accountants they are trusted by clients and therefore need to understand the size of the advice pool....
The Federal Court has imposed a $25,000 penalty on Superannuation Warehouse Australia following ASIC action over false and misleading advertising....
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...