It may be as late as mid-2013 before the new accountants' advice regime is up and running....
By becoming licensed to provide financial advice, accountants will be able to charge clients for advice they are currently "giving away for free", says head of SMSF Advic...
The ban on off-market transfers for self-managed superannuation funds will not go ahead as planned from 1 July 2012, and is likely to be delayed for one year, according t...
DEXX&R projects the total financial services market will grow by 8 per cent per annum to reach $3,372 billion by December 2021....
The number of self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) using a RG146-compliant financial adviser has continued to decline, sitting at 52 per cent, according to Investmen...
Specialist SMSFs company Cavendish Superannuation says Treasury officials have confirmed a deferral of the legislation which would have impacted off-market transfers....
Amid the fall-out from Trio Capital it has been suggested that financial planners be required to warn clients establishing SMSFs that they are entering a higher risk envi...
The Federal Treasury has been asked why CGT rollover relief cannot be extended to SMSFs merging with APRA-regulated funds....
The Auditor-General has warned that the ATO's interpretive decisions on SMSFs carry less legal weight than interpretive decisions on tax matters....
ASFA suggests money to fund the ATO on Stronger Super may not meet cost/benefit benchmarks....
The time has come for a total rethink about how investors are looked after when there is a 'Trio Capital', according to SPAA's Peter Burgess....
ASIC signals a push to have SMSF trustees acknowledge the existence of a higher level of risk....
The idea that SMSFs tend to be pushed on clients by accountants is more of a perception than a reality, says Institute of Chartered Accountants head of superannuation Liz...
The Institute of Public Accountants' affiliation with MLC and AMP/AXA will not threaten its members' independence, says IPA general manager Vicki Stylianou....
The SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia has welcomed an Australian Taxation Office ruling clarifying the status of borrowing arrangements around single assets....
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...
increased professionalism within the industry - shouldn't that say, FAR register almost halving in the last 24 months he...