APRA seeks to create distance from blame around Trio Capital while pointing to deficiencies of SMSF trustees and financial planners....
The proliferation of professional "hats" an adviser or an accountant has to wear simultaneously when giving advice is going to confuse planners and accountants in the wid...
John Kelly outlines new rules regarding insurance, and how they affect SMSFs when it comes to insuring collectibles and personal-use assets....
More SMSF trustees are using the power of CFDs as hedging tools within their funds to protect their core portfolios, according to Capital CFDs....
The SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia has welcomed an Australian Taxation Office ruling clarifying the status of borrowing arrangements around single assets....
Product providers should be responsible for funding a last resort compensation scheme, according to the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia....
One of the headline announcements in the 2012-13 Federal Budget affecting SMSFs was regarding contribution caps. Dan Butler and Nathan Papson explore this announcement, a...
Minister for Financial Services Bill Shorten canvasses SMSF compensation levy while fingering some financial advisers on Trio Capital collapse....
The Australian SMSF Members Association has formed a partnership with OneVue which will both sponsor the group and launch an intermediated consumer platform for associati...
A study currently being conducted by the University of Adelaide may allow both current and prospective SMSF trustees to make greater cost comparisons, according to Plaza ...
SMSF advisers need to be careful when considering the right stocks for their clients’ portfolios. Peter van der Westhuyzen takes a look at the benefits of dividend reinve...
Due to growing costs and increasing workload, smaller accounting practices might wish to outsource SMSF administration, writes Olivia Long....
Stephen Miller from MLC Technical Services explains how establishing a 13.22C trust can enable SMSF trustees to co-own a residential or business property with a related p...
SMSF trustees need to make sure there is enough liquidity in their funds to balance out 'lumpy' assets such as property to avoid a potential fire sale of assets if they p...
Self-managed superannuation was the clear winner of 2011, with healthy sector growth and satisfactory investment returns. However, as 2012 kicks off, SMSFs must turn thei...
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?...