SMSFS

Superannuation

The Cooper Review panel may have suggested otherwise, but Mike Taylor writes that the exponential growth in the number of self-managed superannuation funds and the invest...

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Editorial

Suncorp Life's Sarina Raffo considers the pros and cons of superannuation and non-superannuation income streams and what affect this will have on retirement....

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Superannuation

The ongoing uncertainty over the accountant exemption applying to self-managed super funds (SMSFs) as well as a number of rules that simply don’t make sense are two...

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Superannuation

SMSFs have emerged as an important revenue stream for planners and planning industry support services....

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Financial planning

High-profile firm Dixon Advisory has begun recommending geared residential property investments for its self-managed super fund clients....

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Superannuation

While new research suggests more SMSF trustees are using advisers, it also confirms their own self-belief....

Superannuation

There is little point in starting a SMSF with less than $1 million in assets, according to Chant West principal Warren Chant....

Superannuation

The Australian Taxation Office has revealed the degree to which compliance activity has escalated with the growth in SMSFs....

Superannuation

An ATO interpretive decision around SMSF borrowings has raised as many questions as it has answered....

Funds management

Australian shares continue to improve and dividends are returning to more normal levels after increasing for the first time in 12 months, according to experts from Russel...

Superannuation

Super funds will have to work even harder to keep their members, as one-third of them have expressed a desire to set up their own self-managed superannuation fund in the ...

Superannuation

SMSF trustees now only have to pay a flat $50 stamp duty fee when transferring business real property under new NSW State regulation, according to chartered accountancy f...

Superannuation

An increasing number of investors are not getting enough information and advice on self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) and are suffering as a result, according to W...

Superannuation

SISFA has expressed concern that SMSFs that are late lodging tax returns for the 2009-10 financial year may be unfairly punished by the ATO....

Financial planning

As direct investments become more popular, with ETFs in particular gaining ground, Janine Mace discovers that for many consumers cash is still king....

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