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Superannuation

Media Super pays a $10,200 penalty after producing potentially misleading advertising, says ASIC....

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Financial planning

Over 55s have finally recovered from the post-Global Financial Crisis (GFC) malaise that prevented them from retiring, an SMSF adviser says. ...

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Superannuation

The industry funds-backed AIST says the Financial Systems Inquiry should examine the risk inherent in SMSFs....

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Superannuation

An industry body representing SMSFs has rejected the idea of the sector being regulated by APRA, claiming the current framework is sufficient....

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Superannuation

ASIC's goal to improve the standard of advice given to prospective SMSF trustees has been welcomed by SPAA. ...

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Superannuation

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

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Superannuation

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...

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Superannuation

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

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Superannuation

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

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Superannuation

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...

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Superannuation

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

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Superannuation

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

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Superannuation

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

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Superannuation

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...

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Superannuation

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...

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