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Female SMSF trustees narrow gender gap

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 23 JAN 2012
Nearly half of all SMSF members are women, which is helping to reduce the gender gap in retirement savings according to Australia's peak SMSF body. Pointing to recently released figures from the tax office that reveal 46% of SMSF trustees are female ...

SMSFs dominating super assets

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 13 DEC 2011
The peak body for SMSFs has welcomed the latest Australian Tax Office statistics which show SMSF assets have grown at twice the rate of total super industry assets in the past five years to June 30 2010. According to the "Self Managed Super Funds: a ...

SelectingSuper celebrates super powers

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011
... - Winner: REST Industry Superannuation Super Fund of the Year - Winner: Telstra Superannuation Scheme Self Managed Super Fund of the Year - Winner: Super Concepts

SMSF cloud solution launched

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2011
A new cloud based, self-managed super fund business solution designed specifically for financial service providers has been launched. Superfund Wholesale is an automated setup and administration service for self managed super funds (SMSFs) designed ...

Leenane Templeton Chartered Accountants adds financial planning

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2011
... national 'Self Managed Super Specialists' brand ensuring additional financial advisory support to those self managed super fund clients who are actively involved in managing their own superannuation portfolio. "The decision supports our strategy to grow ...

OneVue to expand its UMA platform distribution

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 11 OCT 2011
Platform provider OneVue said talks are at an advanced stage with several new dealer groups and accounting firms to make its unified managed account platform available to them. Adviser groups currently using the OneVue unified managed account (UMA) ...

Tax forum tackles wealth management issues

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011
... grown to be far too complicated and at times mistakes are made due to this complexity," said Shorten. The Self Managed Super Fund Professionals' Association (SPAA) also attended the reform summit and called for new tax reforms such as increasing the ...

SPAA rallies against off-market trading ban

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2011
The self-managed super fund industry is calling on the government to revoke plans to ban off market transfers with particular concern that larger funds are not subject to the same rules. The government's Stronger Super reforms package includes plans ...

SMSFs given leeway on property assets

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2011
Self managed super fund trustees will be allowed to make improvements to property assets under a proposed new ruling from the Australian Taxation Office, which has also relaxed its interpretation of single acquirable assets. The ATO's draft ruling on ...

Super growth static, public sector grows on Health Super merger

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2011
The superannuation industry was unable to grow during the June 2011 quarter, as benefit payments and market losses caused almost $24 billion of contributions to go unrewarded. According to the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), Industry ...