SMSF

Financial planning

Dividends across developed markets saw a rise in the first quarter of the calendar year, according to research by Plato Investment Management....

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Policy & Regulation

A former Australian Financial Services authorised representative has been jailed for 10 years for using clients’ funds “as he pleased”....

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Superannuation

A major industry body has given the Federal Government’s proposal to increase the maximum number of members in self-managed superannuation funds from four to six....

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SMSF

The SMSF Association has urged the Federal Government to mandate FASEA to increase self-managed superannuation fund education and advice standards....

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SMSF

The Australian Taxation Office last year focused its self-managed superannuation fund compliance investigations on non-lodgements, advice on illegal early release of fund...

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Features

Self-managed superannuation funds are growing in popularity, and at the same time scrutiny of the quality of advice around them is also increasing. Hannah Wootton looks a...

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Superannuation

SuperConcepts has revealed a study which indicates the top 10 exotic self-managed super fund assets and why trustees typically make investments in those assets....

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has taken court action against Advanced Wealth Financial Services and Richard Gardner....

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Financial planning

Financial advisers have emerged as unwitting casualties of the Productivity Commission’s final report on superannuation competitiveness and efficiency....

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Financial planning

With adviser education set to be a continued focus for the industry in the new year, the SMSF Association has welcomed the Productivity Commission’s call for high advice ...

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Superannuation

Self-managed superannuation fund trustees plan to take their investments offshore should Labor’s franking credit removal proposal take off. ...

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Superannuation

Treating self-managed superannuation funds differently to industry funds with respect to franking credits is un-Australian, according to financial services academic, Prof...

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Financial planning

Class has announced a new data feed integration with XPLAN to enable advises, accountants and clients to share a single up-to-date view of wealth in the SMSF and non-supe...

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Financial planning

The SMSF Association has urged the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority to prioritise finding a workable solution rather than rushing to meet its implementati...

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Superannuation

The SMSF Association is selling the message that you don’t need $1 million to set up a self-managed superannuation fund but regulatory uncertainty does represent a major ...

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