Financial planners are already subject to the best interests duty, so any additional requirements with respect to SMSF advice would be redundant, according to the FSC....

Claire Mackay has won the Pro-Bono Award in Money Management/Super Review’s inaugural Women in Financial Services Awards 2013. ...

Super IP-owned Class Super has unveiled its SuperStream-ready self-managed super fund (SMSF) software....

The two major industry super fund lobby groups have issued warnings on the costs of establishing an SMSF....

Industry Super Australia has pointed to new research to highlight fee disparity between SMSFs and industry super funds....

Townsends Business & Corporate Lawyers' Peter Townsend outlines some of the do's and don'ts for maintaining a bare trust in a LRBA....

Changing the trustee of a SMSF is critically important. SMSF deeds differ significantly in how a change of trustee is to be implemented, write Jared Lynch and Bryce Figot...

SMSF regulation should be handed to APRA instead of the ATO, according to a Super Review/Money Management roundtable....

Although tax exemption when selling a person’s main residence is usually a routine matter, things can go badly wrong in some quite unexpected ways, writes Chris Ardagna....

Mike Taylor writes that as a former ASIC executive, ASFA chief executive Pauline Vamos has managed to spice up the submissions to the Senate Committee reviewing ASIC’s op...

SMSF trustees cautioned to ensure they understand the details of establishing bare trusts where limited recourse borrowing is concerned. ...

ASIC wants people to be better informed about the implications of establishing an SMSF before it occurs. ...

ATO confirms to IPA conference that it intends reviewing around 11,000 SMSFs....

ASIC wants investors to be better informed before establishing SMSFs but denies it will pursue prescriptive new disclosure requirements....