The ban on off-market transfers for self-managed superannuation funds will not go ahead as planned from 1 July 2012, and is likely to be delayed for one year, according t...
The cost of registering as a self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) auditor is likely to be in the hundreds of dollars rather than thousands, according to SMSF Professio...
Mike Taylor writes that the Federal Opposition has signalled some of the so-called ‘concessions’ extracted around the passage of the FOFA bills may not have a life beyond...
The Federal Opposition has signalled it remains to be convinced about either introducing or supporting legislation which would restrict the use of the terms 'financial pl...
Industry experts believe proposed legislation and a new licensing regime will give way to like-for-like cost comparisons between SMSFs, industry and retail superannuation...
According to the chief executive of SPAA, Andrea Slattery, ATO figures showing SMSF fees decreasing prove SMSFs are well-positioned to compete with other superannuation s...
Disillusionment with the funds management industry and a hunger for transparency among clients is fuelling a move towards direct equities....
The SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) has moved to correct the "misconception" that SMSF trustees have no legal options ahead of them in the event of fr...
The time has come for a total rethink about how investors are looked after when there is a 'Trio Capital', according to SPAA's Peter Burgess....
The SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia has welcomed an Australian Taxation Office ruling clarifying the status of borrowing arrangements around single assets....
Product providers should be responsible for funding a last resort compensation scheme, according to the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia....
Mike Taylor writes that the Government’s FOFA process has finally produced a genuinely positive outcome in the St John report’s clear analysis of the need for financial p...
The Self-Managed Super Fund Professionals' Association has acknowledged it had been lobbying for the two-year delay in the commencement data of the concessional contribut...
The Federal Budget has won little applause and much criticism from the financial services industry....
If, as is being widely speculated, the Federal Government uses the Federal Budget to once again alter the tax setting around Australia’s superannuation system, the ALP wi...
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,...
increased professionalism within the industry - shouldn't that say, FAR register almost halving in the last 24 months he...