SMSFS

Superannuation

The growth in self managed superannuation has grown in recent months as the result of changes in legislation. Ben Smythe investigates what advisers should be telling clie...

Superannuation

<B>The new adviser </B>For a number of years, self managed super funds (SMSF) have been considered part-time work for many financial planning professionals across Austral...

Financial planning

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) will appoint a statutory approved trustees (SAT) to thousands of DIY super funds as new regulations come into force....

Financial planning

The Strategist Group recently sat down and documented more than 100 different strategies that financial planners may implement when dealing with clients that have put in ...

Financial planning

Close to ten per cent of all small superannuation funds failed to make the choice to become either a Self-Managed Superannuation Fund (SMSF) or a Small APRA Fund (SAF) by...

Financial planning

The Small Independent Superannuation Funds Association (SISFA) is appealing to financial planners to join its ranks in a bid to better represent self-managed superannuati...

Financial planning

Advisers may be opening themselves up to possible litigation by failing to advise clients with DIY superannuation funds on the options available to them under SLAB 3 legi...

Financial planning

Summit master trust has rolled out its own DIY service for self managed super funds (SMSFs) and their trustees, offering administration and custody services. ...

Superannuation

Perhaps one of the main reasons for the growth in self managed super is that promoters such as Grant Abbott imply that many of the benefits of superannuation generally (c...

Financial planning

Super growth for self manager super Despite recent reports to the contrary, self managed super funds continue to grow rapidly. Grant Abbott explains the factors behind ...

Superannuation

A legal technicality in the new SLAB3 legislation is threatening Australia’s 300,000+ self-managed superannuation funds (SMSF). The legislation, due to come into effect ...

Financial planning

A legal technicality in the new SLAB3 legislation is threatening Australia’s 300,000+ self-managed superannuation funds (SMSF). The legislation, due to come into effect ...

Financial planning

After much deliberation, the Senate passed the member/ trustee laws late last year which have significanrt ramifications for self managed super funds (SMSF). The March 31...

Financial planning

In a recent superannuation surcharge ruling, the commissioner of taxation opened a Pandora’s box when he talked of using reserves in a self managed superannuation fund (S...

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