self-managed super funds

Financial planning

Financial advice can start with one piece and that can build to full advice later as the advice framework fails to lure Australians into receiving full advice, according ...

Financial planning

Limited licensing has failed claims SMSF Association

The SMSF Association wants the Government to dump its limited licensing regime for accountants on the basis of it having failed to meet its objectives and having, instead...

Funds management

BetaShares launch diversified ETFs on the ASX

BetaShares has announced that four of its diversified exchange traded funds will be now available on the Australian Securities Exchange....

Financial planning

SMSF advice beyond scope of TPB review

Providing advice with respect to Self-Managed Superannuation Funds is complex and something deserving deeper analysis than the current review of the Tax Practitioners Boa...

Financial planning

Powerwrap posts NPAT loss

Wealth platform, Powerwrap Limited has reported the underlying net profit after tax loss of $5.4 million....

People & Products

Policy head departs from SMSF Association

Policy head, Jordan George, has announced he has resigned from his role at the SMSF Association which he held for the past seven-and-half years, effective 23 August....

Policy & Regulation

Has double-counting led to transfer balance cap blow-outs?

Double-counting may have led to the Australian Taxation Office wrongly pursuing superannuation fund members over excess transfer balance caps....

Policy & Regulation

NAB again in adverse media spotlight

National Australia Bank has again found itself the subject of adverse media following the publication of leaked audit documents relating to its risk governance standards....

Superannuation

The dangers of extra super withdrawal

Making extra withdrawals from superannuation every year could still cause problems for members, according to Bob Locke from SMSF specialist Practical Systems Super, despi...

Policy & Regulation

Sydney-based financial planning firm enters into liquidation

Sydney-based financial planning firm Jade Private Wealth has entered into receivership....

Financial planning

VOFF accuses Labor of “politicising a crime” in Trio fraud

Aussie politicians make “politicised and dishonest decisions about ‘fraud’” despite having no law enforcement of forensic investigation skills, Victims of Financial Fraud...

Superannuation

SMSFs in need of advice in key areas

Self-managed superannuation fund members say they want more financial advice, with 315,000 reporting they had unmet advice needs this year, up from 275,000 last year, but...

Policy & Regulation

Rate hike prompts trustees to reconsider their LRBA rate

SMSF trustees are being encouraged to review their current finance rates after changes to the safe harbour rates benchmark affecting LRBAs. ...

Superannuation

SMSF Association appoints specialist adviser to its board

The SMSF Association has appointed self-managed super fund specialist adviser, Scott Hay-Bartlem, to its board from 1 July....

SMSF

Hostplus offers SMSFs option to invest in super fund

Hostplus has continued its efforts to engage with self-managed super funds, launching a product that would allow SMSF investors to become unit holders in the industry fun...