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Superannuation

Melbourne-based life insurance broker Family Care Australia has entered into an alliance with MetLife Insurance to offer self-managed superannuation fund members “discoun...

Financial planning

AMP Capital Investors has made its first serious foray into the retail market with the launch of four open ended funds through its Private Clients channel....

Superannuation

The latest AMP Capital/Investment Trends SMSF Investor Report has revealed compliance is now clearly the number one challenge being faced by people running their own supe...

Superannuation

Three months before its shareholders are expected to approve a $55 million sale to the Washington Post, financial services education provider Tribeca has sold its self ma...

Superannuation

The gentle rumble that was self-managed super has grown into a resounding roar over the last few years. I guess it’s for all the right reasons – a sense of control, the p...

Financial planning

There is a degree of confusion by some practitioners in the financial planning and accountancy fields as to the ability of an accountant to give advice to a client of the...

Financial planning

Self-managed superannuation funds are booming and, with employee choice just around the corner, things are starting to heat up in this sector....

Superannuation

The Australian Taxation Office is making sure that the trustees of self-managed superannuation funds are left in no doubt about their obligations with respect to the owne...

Superannuation

Controversial Government plans to ban self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) from providing defined benefit pensions have been delayed while Assistant Treasurer Mal Br...

Superannuation

No one has been particularly surprised at the recent clash which has erupted between industry and retail super funds over the issue of choice, but the DIY super sector ha...

Superannuation

Two former Super Concepts directors have launched a self-managed superannuation fund education business in Melbourne....

Superannuation

The trustees of a number of self-managed superannuation funds can expect to be contacted by both the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) and the Australian Prudential Regula...

Superannuation

The trustees of a number of self-managed superannuation funds can expect to be contacted by both the Australian Taxation Office and the Australian Prudential Regulation A...

Superannuation

A new professional accreditation for advisers on self managed superannuation funds (SMSF), who meet higher standards higher in the area than the minimum under PS 146, is ...

Superannuation

The SMSF Professionals’ Association of Australia (SPAA) today released the industry’s first accreditation programme for self-managed super fund (SMSF) education providers...

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