SMSFS

Financial planning

The approach adopted by the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority may have served to undermine accountants utilising the limited licensing regime, according to...

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Superannuation

The OpenInvest online marketplace and platform has launched, with self-managed superannuation fund trustees the primary market. ...

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Superannuation

The Financial Services Council has found that ordinary Australians who are members of large super funds are the biggest group benefiting from franking credit refunds, adv...

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Superannuation

The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia has warned that the Labor Party’s proposal to abolish refundable franking credits needs to take into account the bedd...

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Superannuation

Commercial property lender Thinktank has urged regulators and the Government not to ban the use of limited recourse borrowing arrangements within SMSFs....

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Financial planning

Self-managed superannuation funds should be excluded from the product design and distribution rules, according to the SMSF Association....

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Policy & Regulation

Labor’s proposed franking credits reforms are “flawed, inequitable and fail to meet the policy intent of improving the integrity of dividend imputation for all tax payers...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has suspended and deregistered 101 self-managed superannuation fund auditors due to audit quality....

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has cancelled the AFS licence of Austplan, effective from 25 November....

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SMSF

The Federal Opposition’s move to remove franking credits may drive up SMSF membership, according to SMSF Alliance principal, David Busoli. ...

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Funds management

BetaShares has launched its new Global Income Leaders exchange-traded fund which will offer access to a portfolio of 100 global companies....

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SMSF

Following a period of significant change for self-managed superannuation fund policy, trustees and their advisers should remember to review trust deeds, weathdigital has ...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has urged the mandating of a minimum balance for self-managed superannuation funds and a ban on limited recourse borr...

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SMSF

The clock is ticking for self-managed superannuation funds on a quarterly transfer balance cap schedule, with their first lodgement due in three weeks....

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Superannuation

The specialist commercial property lender says small to medium-size enterprises in the retail sector should always think carefully about acquiring property for the dual p...

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