In-house planners with the Commonwealth Bank will be expected to improve their SMSF skills, with Australia’s third largest dealer group signalling its intention to overha...

Financial advisers have embraced the growth in self-managed superannuation funds with recent research showing just under half of them, 46 per cent, see it as a significan...

The new choice of superannuation fund regime has failed to accelerate the growth of self-managed superannuation funds....

Total estimated superannuation assets grew by 6.7 per cent over the September 2005 quarter to $791.5 billion, according to APRA....

Term allocated pensions and retirees received a welcome boost yesterday after the Federal Government announced the results of its review of pensions provided by small sup...

As fears continue to simmer that many financial planners are ill equipped to deal with the requirements of providing advice on self-managed superannuation funds (SMSF), l...

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The gentle rumble that was self-managed super has grown into a resounding roar over the last few years. I guess it’s for all the right reasons – a sense of control, the p...

Fixed interest has an important place when building a diversified portfolio, and the recent rise in new high yielding investment vehicles, such as hybrids and structured ...

Many a financial planner would have spat out their coffee last June when news of the biggest potential shake-up of financial planning education landed on their desk. A sm...

Individual managed accounts (IMAs) have been touted as the next big thing in financial services for a number of years. Admittedly, nobody knows exactly how many funds und...

Self-managed superannuation funds are booming and, with employee choice just around the corner, things are starting to heat up in this sector....

Will choice offer you the opportunity to generate more business? That kind of depends. Various reports have suggested few members, maybe around 10 per cent, are likely to...

Statistics from the Australian Taxation office show that over 20 per cent of superannuation assets currently under management are within a self-managed superannuation fun...