Financial advisers have embraced the growth in self-managed superannuation funds with recent research showing just under half of them, 46 per cent, see it as a significan...
The ATO has expressed concern at the continuing use of the term ‘do-it-yourself super’ when referring to self-managed superannuation arguing that it can conjure up inappr...
The outlook for the financial services industry in 2006 is, as the French would say, plus ça change — the more it changes, the more it is the same....
The new choice of superannuation fund regime has failed to accelerate the growth of self-managed superannuation funds....
Total estimated superannuation assets grew by 6.7 per cent over the September 2005 quarter to $791.5 billion, according to APRA....
Up to 10 per cent of Australians will change super funds by June 30, 2006 according to super clearing house provider InvestmentLink....
Term allocated pensions and retirees received a welcome boost yesterday after the Federal Government announced the results of its review of pensions provided by small sup...
As fears continue to simmer that many financial planners are ill equipped to deal with the requirements of providing advice on self-managed superannuation funds (SMSF), l...
An adviser who sought to encourage people into self-managed superannuation funds by helping them locate lost super accounts has been convicted in the Federal Court and or...
A Perth financial adviser who misused $200,000 of clients’ funds has been banned permanently from providing financial services by ASIC....
A financial adviser was banned, another had his operation shut down, and a superannuation scheme promoter jailed for 18 months as a result of three separate actions initi...
Melbourne dealer group Lonsdale Financial Group has proved that Statements of Advice (SOA) do not need to be long and complex, reducing their disclosure documents to just...
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...