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Financial planning

RaboDirect's new online self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) is designed to hand back control to financially and technically savvy retail investors....

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Superannuation

David Court takes a look at two consequences of a member's bankruptcy that will directly impact on an SMSF and provides a number of strategies on how to respond to them....

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Financial planning

An Australian Taxation Office (ATO) interpretive decision has made clear that bartering arrangements cannot circumvent the related party rules....

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Superannuation

Peter Burgess illustrates the concept of a single acquirable asset demonstrates the application of key concepts relevant to limited recourse borrowing arrangements provis...

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Superannuation

A new interpretive decision issued by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has impacted the way stepchildren are treated with respect to divorce and superannuation....

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Superannuation

If conventional funds can offer greater choice and flexibility they may yet provide competition for SMSFs....

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Editorial

Are multi-asset funds the next big thing, deja vu - or perhaps a bit of both? Janine Mace reports....

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Superannuation

APRA has written to superannuation fund trustees warning them they must take responsibility for any marketing or fund promotion carried on by third parties....

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Financial planning

The ageing population and the ATO's recent draft pensions ruling highlights the need to review clients' overall succession planning, according to Daniel Butler and Nathan...

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Superannuation

The ageing population and the ATO's recent draft pensions ruling highlights the need to review clients' overall succession planning, according to Daniel Butler and Nathan...

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Superannuation

One of the constant criticisms of self-managed super funds (SMSFs) is the number of gaps that persist in the sector's overall framework and yet according to Chris Malkin,...

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Editorial

Managed funds are supposedly a non-transparent and expensive way of investing, while ETFs are increasingly touted as low cost investment saviours. Graham Hand outlines ho...

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Superannuation

Though self-managed super funds (SMSFs) have continued to enjoy solid growth in 2011, estate planning is an area in need of increased focus, according to Peter Hogan, Pri...

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Superannuation

A roundtable of industry experts has suggested the Government's Stronger Super changes have been weakened by the absence of an answer on concessional contributions....

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Superannuation

Proposed amendments to regulations on how long an auditor has to present a report to SMSF trustees are unnecessarily complicated, according to the SMSF Professionals' Ass...

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