SMSF

Superannuation

SMSF members are saving well above the comfortable retirement standards, according to Accurium....

SMSF

Cloud-based self-managed superannuation funds administrator Class is looking beyond SMSFs towards the trust sector to accelerate growth....

Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s SMSF factsheet contains ‘an array of seemingly deliberate inaccuracies’ and should be withdrawn, according to econo...

SMSF

SMSFs that fail to lodge annual returns by the due date and have their compliance status changed do not have the right to appeal to the AAT as the SuperFund Lookup websit...

People & Products

The SMSF Association has appointed Robin Bowerman as its new chair, replacing Dr Deborah Ralston who has joined the Review of the Retirement Income System....

Superannuation

People should carefully consider before involving other family members in their self-managed superannuation funds as it may not be in the best interest of all parties, ac...

Policy & Regulation

The review could facilitate scrutiny of the government’s fiscally unsustainable policies, Heffron believes. ...

Financial planning

The major accounting bodies want far more than the re-establishment of the accountant’s exemptions – they want a wholesale review of a post-Future of Financial Advice reg...

Tools & guides

SuperConcepts’ Graeme Colley explains why self-managed super funds are likely to come under more scrutiny following recent court decisions and how trustees and their clie...

Policy & Regulation

A total of 53 current bachelor or higher degrees, 66 historical courses and 30 bridging courses are now part of FASEA’s accreditation....

Tools & guides

Accurium’s Melanie Dunn explores how payments and withdrawals from superannuation can be carried out in the most compliant way....

Funds management

Commercial property lender Thinktank has said that its two investment bond trusts, established as an alternative to bank financing, might be positive for investors....

Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has banned former Melbourne financial adviser Robert Michael for dishonestly borrowing money from his clients’ self-m...

Superannuation

New research has confirmed that Government changes to the rules are making it harder for people to accumulate more than $2 million in their superannuation accounts....

Superannuation

The average and medium establishment balances for self-managed super funds (SMSFs) have seen a 38 per cent increase to $521,000, compared to $370,000 in the previous four...

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