Adviser sentenced to jail and permanently banned from providing financial services....
Mike Taylor writes that as a former ASIC executive, ASFA chief executive Pauline Vamos has managed to spice up the submissions to the Senate Committee reviewing ASIC’s op...
SMSF trustees cautioned to ensure they understand the details of establishing bare trusts where limited recourse borrowing is concerned. ...
SPAA supports ASIC on property spruikers but maintains that, properly-advised, property is a legitimate SMSF investment....
New research by CMC Markets confirms SMSF trustees have a preference for bluechip shares. ...
ATO confirms to IPA conference that it intends reviewing around 11,000 SMSFs....
ASIC wants investors to be better informed before establishing SMSFs but denies it will pursue prescriptive new disclosure requirements....
ASIC has signalled a crackdown on unlicensed property spruikers who advocate self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) investment without the proper authority...
AMP has added 1,200 accounts to its self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) business after acquiring Supercorp’s SMSF administration business YourSMSF. ...
ASIC chairman Greg Medcraft reinforces the regulator's concerns around SMSF exposure to hybrid securities. ...
The workings of franking credits within a SMSF continue to cause confusion, according to SPAA's Graeme Colley....
ANZ sells its Super Concepts business to SuperIQ as it plots new strategy on SMSFs. ...
Recent court case creates uncertainty about GST payments on recently purchased properties, including those insides SMSFs. ...
SPAA wants the Coalition Government to increase the concessional contribution cap above the current $35,000 limit....
The Government and the industry will always differ over the concessional cap, but $35,000 is too low, according to Olivia Long. ...
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,...