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July 1 will end the "amateur" SMSF era

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2016
New entry and licensing requirements for SMSF auditors and accountants from July 1 will likely result in many funds being wound up, according to industry consultant John Wiseman. Wiseman noted that, as at December 2015, SMSFs represented 30% of the ...

Regulators coordinating efforts to protect super

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2016
Australia's financial services regulators have committed to coordinating their efforts to ensure that professionals working in the country's self-managed superannuation sector are acting as they should do. In a panel session at the SMSF Association ...

Third SMSF auditor banned

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2015
... auditors, disqualifying a third person in as many days. James Dermody of New South Wales is disqualified from being an SMSF auditor because he signed independent auditor's reports and auditor independence declarations for two companies for the years ...

ASIC bans another SMSF auditor

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2015
... Wales auditor Manoj Abichandani who was deemed by the regulator to be not a fit and proper person to be an approved SMSF auditor. "It is critical that approved SMSF auditors perform their role adequately and meet professional standards to promote confidence ...

SMSF auditor disqualified

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2015
ASIC has disqualified an SMSF auditor for providing untruthful statements that were deliberately misleading. Manoj Abichandani of New South Wales was also deemed by the regulator as not a fit and proper person to be an approved SMSF auditor. ASIC imposed ...

ASIC bans auditor and adviser

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2015
ASIC has permanently banned an insurance adviser and disqualified an SMSF auditor. Abhinav Gupta provided insurance advice via ACE Insurance's Victorian Combined Insurance division from October 2013 to May 2014. He was not a salaried employee of Combined ...

Trillion dollar super industry attractive to organised criminals

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
The Australian Crime Commission believes Stronger Super reforms implemented from 2013 have reduced illegal early release schemes run through self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs). In its latest report, Organised Crime in Australia 2015, the commission ...

Treasury proposes higher regulatory levies for super funds

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... Financial Services and Australian credit licenses, liquidator registration applications, company auditor and approved SMSF auditor registration applications. The regulator said the goal of the report is to "provide greater transparency and understanding ...

SPAA rebrands as SMSF Association

ALEX GAMBOTTO-BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2015
... intuitive," she argued. In operation since January 2003, SMSF Association established the first SMSF Specialist and SMSF Auditor accreditation programs, participated in the Superannuation Consultative Committee as the leading SMSF sector representative ...

ASIC acts on 440 SMSF auditors

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 18 DEC 2014
Self-managed super fund (SMSF) auditors who did not undertake or pass a competency exam necessary to retain their registration have seen their registration cancelled by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). ASIC has also disqualified ...