Legg Mason moves to attract retail investors and SMSFs by dropping initial investment minimums to $30,000....
New survey confirms strong support for a single regulator approach to superannuation....
Industry funds are aligning with retail – but scale will make competition difficult....
Industry bodies call into question Rice Warner research on costs of SMSFs....
Former AFS adviser Gabriel Nakhl has been permanently banned from providing financial advice after entering into an enforceable undertaking....
SMSF regulation should be handed to APRA instead of the ATO, according to a Super Review/Money Management roundtable....
Two bodies representing industry super funds have called for improvement in the quality of advice provided to clients, questioning some of the drivers behind the growth o...
Adviser sentenced to jail and permanently banned from providing financial services....
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...
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....
ASIC chairman Greg Medcraft reinforces the regulator's concerns around SMSF exposure to hybrid securities. ...
Recent court case creates uncertainty about GST payments on recently purchased properties, including those insides SMSFs. ...
There is clearly regulatory concern about the activities of property spruikers as they seek to target SMSFs and, as Mike Taylor writes, a clear message needs to be sent. ...
Regulator spends big but earns its keep for Commonwealth...
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...