The SMSF sector showed solid asset growth in the three months to 30 September 2013, according to the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia. ...

While there are more than 2,000 companies listed on the ASX, the vast majority of SMSF investments are in a handful of stocks, according to Amanda Skelly, head of SPDR ET...

New survey confirms strong support for a single regulator approach to superannuation....

SPAA warns that requiring financial planners to provide warnings on SMSF compensation is too simplistic. ...

The notion that self-managed super fund (SMSF) trustees should have a 'competency test' as suggested by visiting European financial literacy specialist Robert Holzmann ha...

SPAA says absence of SMSF training standards in new RG146 is surprising, given regulator’s concerns....

SPAA CEO Andrea Slattery has shut down the notion that SMSF trustees should have a competency test, deeming it elitist....

The two major industry super fund lobby groups have issued warnings on the costs of establishing an SMSF....

Changing the trustee of a SMSF is critically important. SMSF deeds differ significantly in how a change of trustee is to be implemented, write Jared Lynch and Bryce Figot...

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...

New research by CMC Markets confirms SMSF trustees have a preference for bluechip shares. ...

ASIC wants people to be better informed about the implications of establishing an SMSF before it occurs. ...

ASIC wants investors to be better informed before establishing SMSFs but denies it will pursue prescriptive new disclosure requirements....

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. ...