Touted as the next frontier for accountants, Limited Australian Financial Service Licences (AFSLs) are starting to gain traction with planners too. But what makes them so...

Adelaide-based SMSF company Excelsuper has extended its financial planning strength via the acquisition of Oxford Financial Services. ...

SMSF specialist BGL sets March launch date for new SMSF administration product. ...

Specialist SMSF administrator SuperGuardian has been appointed by online broker Bell Direct to manage its integrated SMSF solution. ...

MLC’s Keiran McIlwain outlines why and how greater estate planning expertise is critical for today’s financial advisers. ...

From Bo Derek Investments, Cockroach Theory, Black Swans to Dead Cat Bounces, no other industry attracts buzzwords quite like financial services. “Innovative disruption” ...

Trustdeed.com.au's Manoj Abichandani has claimed it is wrong to suggest that just because some deed products are "cheap" they are in some way deficient. ...

legalsuper's Andrew Proebstl questions ageing and death in context of SMSF trusteeships. ...

APRA-regulated superannuation funds still looking to retain members attracted by SMSFs. ...

Centrepoint’s Peter Kelly outlines some of the issues that will require the attention of the advice profession – and their possible impacts – in 2014....

SPAA points to ATO data on benefits payments as evidence SMSFs are taking a responsible approach to how they use their superannuation savings to live in retirement....

Self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) investors have helped drive WAM Capital to a record pre-tax profit. ...

ASIC has reminded SMSF auditors that, from 31 January, they must lodge their annual SMSF auditor statements. ...

Market Vectors suggests ETFs can help SMSFs avoid poor real returns on cash investments, which represent nearly 30 per cent of all SMSF assets....