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Telstra Super lures members with SMSF lookalike

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
... allocated to cash and cash products. However, in the same survey Investment Trends found that the percentage of SMSF investors intending to invest in term deposits over the next 12 months (from April) had fallen from 34% to 21%. This drop coincides with ...

Could ASIC become the SMSF regulator?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
... retirement savings." She said the ATO is not well-placed to carry out this second function. While about half of SMSF investors use ASIC-regulated financial planners, the other half do not. This means their investing activities are essentially unregulated. ...

MDAs key to proving value of advice

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2013
... clients who want to engage with their advisers and their portfolios more actively. Given the large proportion of SMSF investors - about half according to Investment Trends - who do not use financial planners, this could be a key selling point for this ...

Breaking Australia's love affair with the lump sum

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2013
... would prefer it to be a voluntary move rather than a legislated one. With an average balance of around $450,000, SMSF investors are generally financially independent, and therefore do not want the government telling them what they can and cannot do with ...

Financial planners lose out to accountants on SMSFs

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2013
... in 2007, when there were approximately 330,000 SMSFs in Australia. This could show that a growing proportion of SMSF investors are taking their own investment advice, and only employing advisers - predominantly accountants - to give them tax advice. ...

No more SMSF tax loopholes for excess concessional contributions

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2013
SMSF investors will no longer be able to use excess concessional contributions (ECCs) to avoid paying the highest rate of tax on their income, according to AMP SMSF's head of policy and technical Peter Burgess. Speaking at the SPAA State Technical Conference ...

Class Super gains ground in SMSF software race

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2013
... ahead of theirs," he said. Class Super's rise will not be comfortable for competitors, but it may be good news for SMSF investors. There are already signs that their growing presence is having a downward influence on prices.

ACFS flummoxed by SMSF cash trend

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013
... this "odd" asset allocation trend "is not simply explained by the absence of fixed interest product suitable for SMSF investors. The large average size [$480,397] of SMSFs suggests that the owners are relatively sophisticated investors, and the fact ...

SMSFs urged to consider transparent alternatives to managed funds

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013
... Portfolio, to its platform. According the Xpress Super, SMAs offer greater transparency than managed funds for SMSF investors wanting to delegate the day-to-day investment decisions to Macquarie. "We chose Macquarie's Personal Portfolio because it provides ...

SelfWealth to distribute through BGL

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2013
... the growth to strengthen the value of the SW200, SelfWealth's own benchmarking index that allows individuals and SMSF investors to compare their performance between themselves and to the companies in the ASX200. "SelfWealth will be in a position to provide ...