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Macquarie launches SMSF tool

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012
... Black Book app and The SMSF Generations Report earlier this year. Colley said advisers, accountants and other SMSF professionals are increasingly seeking more insights and information on SMSFs as the industry continues to grow. "With tools such as the ...

Super concession cuts ignite SMSF debate

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2012
... should be well targeted and directed to those with lower balances." Andrea Slattery, chief executive of the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) however, argues that the concept that SMSFs are targeted specifically for tax concessional ...

Gen Y leans away from SMSF cash holdings

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2012
... balances. That's one of the findings of The SMSF Generations Report released today by Macquarie Bank and the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA). The report finds significant differences in attitudes between various generations of SMSF ...

Govt targets early release schemes; defers SMSF transfer ban

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2012
... between self-managed super funds (SMSF) and related parties where a market exists, until July 1, 2013. The SMSF Professionals Association of Australia (SPAA) said it understands the Government's intention was to enforce a ban on these transactions by ...

Highly educated SMSF investors prime fraud targets

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2012
... "alarming number" of fraudulent operations were based in South-East Asia. While Graeme Colley, director of the SMSF professionals' Association of Australia said the report was "plain commonsense," he referred to the cost of the Trio scam and said investors ...

New accountants' licence hailed as win for affordable advice

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2012
... industry competition - by evening up the disjointed playing field that is part of the current regime." The SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) commented on Minister for Financial Services Bill Shorten's estimates that the new rules could ...

SMSF establishments continue down trend

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2012
... In looking at the most recent annual data to December 2011, Andrea Slattery, chief executive officer of the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) commented on the number of women establishing self-managed funds, particularly in the 25-54 ...

Trio investor secures damages from adviser

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012
... investors potentially have other options in the advent of theft or fraud," said Peter Burgess, technical director, SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia Limited (SPAA). "What we've seen in the press is one case were an investor was able to successfully ...

ATO clarifies borrowing issues for SMSFs

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAY 2012
... meant by a 'single acquirable asset' and what constitutes repair or maintenance of an asset, according to the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia. The release of the Self Managed Superannuation Funds Ruling SMSFR 2012/1 by the Tax Commissioner ...

Industry rejects changes to super tax

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2012
... market conditions, which the Government shouldn't exacerbate," concurred Andrea Slattery, chief executive of the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA). "The incentivised tax structure for superannuation is an original and critical feature ...