Industry Super Australia has told the Productivity Commission that some retail funds and self-managed superannuation fund promoters have pursued ‘confusion marketing stra...
Treating self-managed superannuation funds differently to industry funds with respect to franking credits is un-Australian, according to financial services academic, Prof...
Class has announced a new data feed integration with XPLAN to enable advises, accountants and clients to share a single up-to-date view of wealth in the SMSF and non-supe...
The approach adopted by the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority may have served to undermine accountants utilising the limited licensing regime, according to...
The SMSF Association has urged the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority to prioritise finding a workable solution rather than rushing to meet its implementati...
The OpenInvest online marketplace and platform has launched, with self-managed superannuation fund trustees the primary market. ...
The SMSF Association is selling the message that you don’t need $1 million to set up a self-managed superannuation fund but regulatory uncertainty does represent a major ...
Qualitas has announced that its Real Estate Income Fund has managed to raise more than $230 million....
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...
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...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has suspended and deregistered 101 self-managed superannuation fund auditors due to audit quality....
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has cancelled the AFS licence of Austplan, effective from 25 November....
The Federal Opposition’s move to remove franking credits may drive up SMSF membership, according to SMSF Alliance principal, David Busoli. ...
As long-anticipated reforms to self-managed superannuation fund contributions and reporting take effect, advisers need to consider how SMSFs invest, Hannah Wootton writes...
Although self-managed superannuation funds have decreased their use of financial planners over the last decade, data from Investment Trends suggests that there is growing...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...
This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....