SMSF
Superannuation
Faced by the misgivings of at least one major accounting group, the SMSF Association has sought to reinforce the benefits of increasing the size of self-managed superannu...
Superannuation
Major accountancy group, CPA Australia has warned that increasing the size of self-managed superannuation funds may give rise to governance issues including more family d...
Financial planning
The Australian Council of Trade Unions has condemned the Government’s proposed changes to self-managed superannuation funds structures as an estate planning vehicle and c...
SMSF
The corporate regulator has added new conditions to the registration of two SMSF auditors, William Krammer and Yuk Wong....
Tools & guides
Graeme Colley explores the different factors that auditors are looking for when residential or commercial property is held in a self-managed super fund....
Superannuation
Advised and non-advised SMSF clients could be a target market for the US boutique active manager as it seeks to make Australia its second-largest market. ...
Financial planning
The Administrative Appeals Tribunal has set aside the disqualification of SMSF auditor John Gilliland by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission....
Financial planning
OpenInvest has added BlackRock model portfolios to its platform, at the same time as appointing Spiro Pappas as its chairman, with further firms expected to be added in t...
Superannuation
The bill would see the maximum allowable number of members in a self-managed super fund increase from four to six....
Financial planning
Tax Financial Advisers should be permitted to apply for Australian Business Numbers on behalf of clients and the Tax Practitioners Board has been asked to facilitate the ...
Financial planning
The corporate regulator has obtained interim orders against PW Kitt Co and sole director Larry Dawson for a fraudulent SMSF advisory business. ...
Policy & Regulation
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has cancelled or imposed restrictions on 42 SMSF auditors for failing to maintain their audit experience....
Financial planning
The Court of Criminal Appeals has dismissed Gabriel Nakhl’s appeal against a 10-year sentence for misuse of client funds....
People & Products
Class has acquired Smartcorp for $4.2 million with the transaction to be completed by 20 August....
Policy & Regulation
The chair of a key Parliamentary Committee has raised the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s errors within its controversial SMSF factsheet among errors t...
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