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Superannuation

SPAA warns that requiring financial planners to provide warnings on SMSF compensation is too simplistic. ...

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Superannuation

The notion that self-managed super fund (SMSF) trustees should have a 'competency test' as suggested by visiting European financial literacy specialist Robert Holzmann ha...

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Superannuation

SPAA says absence of SMSF training standards in new RG146 is surprising, given regulator’s concerns....

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Superannuation

Industry bodies call into question Rice Warner research on costs of SMSFs....

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Superannuation

Warning self-managed super funds (SMSFs) that they are not entitled to compensation is too “simplistic” and needs to factor in all financial assistance available....

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Editorial

Carolan Ibbotson has been named BDM of the Year as part of Money Management/Super Review’s Women in Financial Services Awards 2013....

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Superannuation

SPAA CEO Andrea Slattery has shut down the notion that SMSF trustees should have a competency test, deeming it elitist....

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Superannuation

SPAA supports ASIC on property spruikers but maintains that, properly-advised, property is a legitimate SMSF investment....

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Superannuation

SPAA welcomes Govt's decision not to proceed with Labor legislation taxing superannuation pension earnings over $100,000. ...

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Policy & Regulation

The financial services industry has broadly welcomed the Government’s move to abolish the proposed tax on super earnings over $100,000....

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Superannuation

The workings of franking credits within a SMSF continue to cause confusion, according to SPAA's Graeme Colley....

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Superannuation

SPAA wants the Coalition Government to increase the concessional contribution cap above the current $35,000 limit....

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Superannuation

There is clearly regulatory concern about the activities of property spruikers as they seek to target SMSFs and, as Mike Taylor writes, a clear message needs to be sent. ...

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Superannuation

SPAA has welcomed the high priority accorded to superannuation with the announcement of Labor's shadow ministry. ...

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Superannuation

While the SMSF advice space may have changed with the introduction of limited licensing, it is the concept of an SMSF profession that remains paramount, according to Andr...

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