SMSFS

Financial planning

The concept of trust in financial planning has reached a critical juncture, writes Geoff Rimmer, and only bold measures will restore it. ...

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Superannuation

Industry super funds appear to be making desperate attempts to retain those members most likely to break away and set up a self-managed super fund, as Damon Taylor report...

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Accounting

Countplus has invested $2.15 million from borrowings into Super-IP, taking a 4 per cent stake in the group which produces the SMSF software administration system Class Su...

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Superannuation

Australian investors believe global markets will rise over the next year and are cooling in their outlooks for the domestic stock market, according to the inaugural Certi...

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Superannuation

SPAA claims $2000 self-education cap will undermine maintenance of professionalism in SMSF sector....

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Superannuation

SPAA’s Graeme Colley sees positive outcome from changes to non-reversionary pensions settings....

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Superannuation

Macquarie Personal Portfolio has been added to the Xpress Super's self-managed super fund platform, according to Xpress Super's Olivia Long....

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Financial planning

The distinction between wholesale and retail clients has been a fundamental part of the financial services laws since the 2004 Financial Services Reform legislation. Howe...

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Financial planning

Recently launched Xpress Super has added Macquarie’s Separately Managed Account (SMA) product Macquarie Personal Portfolio to its platform....

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Funds management

More than half of Australian high net worth (HNW) investors expect global markets to rise over the next year, while cooling their outlook on the domestic front....

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Financial planning

The ability to easily open and manage accounts are what advisers are looking for when it comes to cash products, according to a new survey conducted by Macquarie Bank....

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Financial planning

Count founder Barry Lambert predicts in Money Management that commercial reality and the FOFA changes will precipitate the disappearance of more AFSLs....

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Superannuation

AMP’s Philip La Greca provides a checklist for taking on an existing SMSF client....

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Editorial

With Parliament having risen for the final time before the Federal election and the new legislative settings now largely in place, Lisa Claes says that when the regulator...

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Superannuation

SelfWealth has signed a wholesale distribution agreement with SMSF administration software provider BGL Corporate Solutions....

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