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Cash for investment not just liquidity

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2012
... months, investments in RaboDirect's five year term deposits had more than doubled, with the proportion of these invested in by SMSFs increasing by more than 80%. "In terms of the volume and shift seen in our term deposit book in the last 12 months and ...

Govt targets early release schemes; defers SMSF transfer ban

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2012
... breaching the general prohibition on acquiring assets from a related party," said Peter Burgess, SPAA's technical director. "For SMSFs, the amendment would most likely restrict the exemption available under section 66(2) to listed securities acquired ...

Investors ignoring credit

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012
... as an investment class," said Richard Quin, Bentham managing director. "For retail investors and the increasing pool of SMSFs, credit is an intermediate investment class that plays a very positive role in portfolio diversification. With investors shying ...

NAB launches margin loan product for SMSFs

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012
NAB Wealth has launched NAB Super Lever, a standard margin loan product that lets SMSF investors borrow money to invest in listed shares and unlisted managed funds. The product allows self managed super fund (SMSF) investors to borrow a minimum of $20,000 ...

Advisers optimistic on SMSFs despite changing skill set

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012
... skills required. The Vanguard/Investment Trends Self Managed Super Fund Planner Report showed despite total revenue from SMSFs falling from 24% in 2011 to 21%, advisers were still optimistic on deriving SMSF revenue. Overall advisers still expect SMSF ...

My Adviser offers accountants licensing package

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2012
... Adviser group has launched a specialist authority licensee package to enable accountants to continue to provide advice on SMSFs and superannuation following the changes to the accountant exemption in the FOFA reforms. Currently, accountants can provide ...

Macquarie AS updates term deposit offering

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
... updates come as research from the April 2012 Investment Trends Self Managed Super Investor Report confirms that a third of SMSFs intend to invest in term deposits in the next 12 months (up from 27% in 2011), said Macquarie.

SMSFs need better access to alternatives: BlueSky

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2012
The focus by fund managers on the 'big end of town' has negatively impacted SMSFs, who have missed out on quality options for alternative returns, according to BlueSky Alternative Investments. This is despite SMSF significant cash weighting making them ...

Trio fraud victims demand compensation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2012
... Aussie battler, immediately rectify what our regulators didn't detect," said Telford. Telford acknowledged that trustees of SMSFs caught up in the fraud made their own decisions to invest in Trio. But he said they based that decision on the information ...

Streamlined SMSF software creates adviser revenue stream

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2012
... planner, who can both use the software. Supercorp believed that advisers could make meaningful returns from a base of 50 SMSFs, he said - for which they charge administration fees. "We have advisers with profitable SMSF businesses who are making 30% ...

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