SMSF

Features

SMSF trustees and advisers must review requirements of the treatment of insurance within their funds annually, taking into account changes around the SIS Act 1993, Janine...

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Features

Specialist education and training seems to be the key to restoring trust in advisers among sceptical self-managed super fund members, Malavika Santhebennur writes....

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Features

With the scrapping of the accountants’ exemption from 1 July this year, accountants need to make licensing decisions to continue advising on SMSFs, Malavika Santhebennur ...

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Features

Malavika Santhebennur looks at what legislative changes the SMSF sector can expect in 2016 and what remains in limbo in part two of this feature on SMSFs....

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Accounting

A NSW SMSF accountant has been charged with multiple counts of criminal conduct and fraud after he misused investor funds and made false and misleading statements to inve...

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Accounting

Accounting administration software provider, Class, has partnered with Depreciator to deliver data accuracy and boost depreciation schedule efficiency....

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Life/Risk

DomaCom’s crowd-funding campaign to purchase the Kidman Station has received a welcome boost with support from an SMSF administration provider....

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Superannuation

A superannuation fund industry survey has revealed most believe that SMSFs should be regulated by APRA....

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Superannuation

Membership of SMSFs has topped the one million mark, with the average fund holding more than $1 million, ATO data reveals....

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Accounting

Most accountants have not started their licence application or made a decision on what SMSF licensing path to pursue, according to a survey....

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Superannuation

ASIC has disqualified a third person this week from being an approved self-managed super fund auditor....

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Policy & Regulation

ASIC has disqualified Abe Samuel from being approved as an SMSF auditor on the grounds of a breach in auditor independence requirements. ...

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Superannuation

Manoj Abichandani has been disqualified from being an approved SMSF auditor by ASIC after providing deliberately misleading statements....

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Life/Risk

ASIC has secured orders permanently restraining a real estate group from encouraging clients to establish an SMSF in order to invest in property....

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Superannuation

Robo-advice today is “not holistic” and cannot be considered as personalised advice, according to Rebecca Sullivan, co-founder of SMSFCheck....

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