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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% ...

Resi property portal targets planners, SMSFs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2012
... investment portal Odyssey Property Solutions Australia. Beard said Odyssey created their portal because compliance focused SMSFs interested in residential property investment were often forced, ironically, to obtain advice about the sector from unlicensed ...

SPAA brands SuperStream costs illogical

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012
... self-managed super fund (SMSF) to pay more towards the $121.5 million levy was grossly inequitable and fundamentally flawed. "If SMSFs were to pay an extra $38 million in levies to help cover the cost of SuperStream, it would equate to about $80 for ...

AMP to acquire Cavendish

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012
... said AMP SMSF director Paul Sainsbury. "It also puts us in a strong position to take advantage of the increasing move by SMSFs to seek advice from financial planners. While only 14% of existing SMSFs use a financial adviser, 42% of SMSFs are being established ...