SMSFS
Financial planning
The approach adopted by the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority may have served to undermine accountants utilising the limited licensing regime, according to...
Superannuation
The OpenInvest online marketplace and platform has launched, with self-managed superannuation fund trustees the primary market. ...
Superannuation
The Financial Services Council has found that ordinary Australians who are members of large super funds are the biggest group benefiting from franking credit refunds, adv...
Superannuation
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia has warned that the Labor Party’s proposal to abolish refundable franking credits needs to take into account the bedd...
Superannuation
Commercial property lender Thinktank has urged regulators and the Government not to ban the use of limited recourse borrowing arrangements within SMSFs....
Financial planning
Self-managed superannuation funds should be excluded from the product design and distribution rules, according to the SMSF Association....
Policy & Regulation
Labor’s proposed franking credits reforms are “flawed, inequitable and fail to meet the policy intent of improving the integrity of dividend imputation for all tax payers...
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has suspended and deregistered 101 self-managed superannuation fund auditors due to audit quality....
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has cancelled the AFS licence of Austplan, effective from 25 November....
SMSF
The Federal Opposition’s move to remove franking credits may drive up SMSF membership, according to SMSF Alliance principal, David Busoli. ...
Funds management
BetaShares has launched its new Global Income Leaders exchange-traded fund which will offer access to a portfolio of 100 global companies....
SMSF
Following a period of significant change for self-managed superannuation fund policy, trustees and their advisers should remember to review trust deeds, weathdigital has ...
Policy & Regulation
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has urged the mandating of a minimum balance for self-managed superannuation funds and a ban on limited recourse borr...
SMSF
The clock is ticking for self-managed superannuation funds on a quarterly transfer balance cap schedule, with their first lodgement due in three weeks....
Superannuation
The specialist commercial property lender says small to medium-size enterprises in the retail sector should always think carefully about acquiring property for the dual p...
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It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...