SMSF

Superannuation

In an unusual move, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission is taking civil action in the Federal Court to force a Gold Coast accountant to abide by an enfor...

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Superannuation

Self-managed superannuation funds have become more competitive with Australian Prudential Regulation Authority regulated funds over the past seven years but having a soli...

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Superannuation

A Rice Warner report, to be launched later this month, will look at when self-managed superannuation funds are most cost-effective....

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Financial planning

The corporate regulator’s ban on Perth self-managed super fund adviser Wayne Blazejczyk has been upheld by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal....

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Superannuation

After recommendation from the Senate Economics Legislation Committee, legislation to increase the maximum number of SMSF members from four to six is expected to pass thro...

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Policy & Regulation

The Queensland property developer has been found guilty of six counts of self-managed super fund fraud totalling $345,000, having initially arrested back in 2017....

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SMSF

The Federal Court has ordered Secure Investments and Aqulia Group to wind up after it found Secure Investments and its director Mudasir Naseeruddin had breached the Corpo...

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SMSF

In the latest FASEA draft guidance, the importance of specialist advice for self-managed superannuation funds has been recognised, according to the SMSF Association....

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SMSF

Self-managed superannuation funds should look to managed funds for capital preservation post-COVID, according to Cor Capital....

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Superannuation

Faced by the misgivings of at least one major accounting group, the SMSF Association has sought to reinforce the benefits of increasing the size of self-managed superannu...

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Superannuation

Major accountancy group, CPA Australia has warned that increasing the size of self-managed superannuation funds may give rise to governance issues including more family d...

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Financial planning

The Australian Council of Trade Unions has condemned the Government’s proposed changes to self-managed superannuation funds structures as an estate planning vehicle and c...

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SMSF

The corporate regulator has added new conditions to the registration of two SMSF auditors, William Krammer and Yuk Wong....

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Tools & guides

Graeme Colley explores the different factors that auditors are looking for when residential or commercial property is held in a self-managed super fund....

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Superannuation

Advised and non-advised SMSF clients could be a target market for the US boutique active manager as it seeks to make Australia its second-largest market. ...

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