SMSFS

Superannuation

UBS Australia will soon launch a direct-to-member superannuation platform which the investment bank claims would be an alternative to SMSFs....

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Superannuation

APRA admits it does not collect data on how long superannuation funds take to administer rollovers and has no view on what might represent best practice....

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Superannuation

Money Management is conducting its SMSF Essentials 2012 education workshop in Melbourne this Wednesday....

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Superannuation

John Kelly outlines new rules regarding insurance, and how they affect SMSFs when it comes to insuring collectibles and personal-use assets....

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Superannuation

The benefits associated with utilising a self-managed super fund come with legal responsibilities and getting it wrong can be criminal, warns Matthew McKee....

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Superannuation

Investors would do well to review their superannuation strategies and maximise their super savings before new laws announced in this year's Federal Budget kick in, accord...

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Superannuation

More SMSF trustees are using the power of CFDs as hedging tools within their funds to protect their core portfolios, according to Capital CFDs....

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Editorial

The industry is still waiting on an announcement from the Government following the decision to remove the accountants' exemption on providing advice on SMSFs as part of F...

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Editorial

With the FOFA, Stronger Super and MySuper reforms finally taking shape, the financial services industry has a clearer picture of what the future holds, writes Chris Kenne...

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Superannuation

The SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia has welcomed an Australian Taxation Office ruling clarifying the status of borrowing arrangements around single assets....

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Financial planning

Product providers should be responsible for funding a last resort compensation scheme, according to the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia....

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Financial planning

The lowering of concessional contributions caps and decrease in the official cash rate have added to the appeal of protected loans as an end of financial year strategy, a...

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Superannuation

The Treasury has invited consultation on its proposal to provide merging APRA-regulated superannuation funds with the option to roll over tax losses to the receiving enti...

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Superannuation

One of the headline announcements in the 2012-13 Federal Budget affecting SMSFs was regarding contribution caps. Dan Butler and Nathan Papson explore this announcement, a...

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Superannuation

AMP looks to move self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) beyond "cottage industry" status....

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