The asset segregation approach in volatile times could provide a number of tax benefits. The SMSF Academy’s Aaron Dunn explains....
Disillusionment with the funds management industry and a hunger for transparency among clients is fuelling a move towards direct equities....
Amid the fall-out from Trio Capital it has been suggested that financial planners be required to warn clients establishing SMSFs that they are entering a higher risk envi...
The SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) has moved to correct the "misconception" that SMSF trustees have no legal options ahead of them in the event of fr...
The Auditor-General has warned that the ATO's interpretive decisions on SMSFs carry less legal weight than interpretive decisions on tax matters....
ASIC signals a push to have SMSF trustees acknowledge the existence of a higher level of risk....
The idea that SMSFs tend to be pushed on clients by accountants is more of a perception than a reality, says Institute of Chartered Accountants head of superannuation Liz...
APRA seeks to create distance from blame around Trio Capital while pointing to deficiencies of SMSF trustees and financial planners....
The proliferation of professional "hats" an adviser or an accountant has to wear simultaneously when giving advice is going to confuse planners and accountants in the wid...
John Kelly outlines new rules regarding insurance, and how they affect SMSFs when it comes to insuring collectibles and personal-use assets....
More SMSF trustees are using the power of CFDs as hedging tools within their funds to protect their core portfolios, according to Capital CFDs....
The SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia has welcomed an Australian Taxation Office ruling clarifying the status of borrowing arrangements around single assets....
Product providers should be responsible for funding a last resort compensation scheme, according to the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia....
One of the headline announcements in the 2012-13 Federal Budget affecting SMSFs was regarding contribution caps. Dan Butler and Nathan Papson explore this announcement, a...
Minister for Financial Services Bill Shorten canvasses SMSF compensation levy while fingering some financial advisers on Trio Capital collapse....
This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
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,...