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SPAA backs limited recourse borrowing rule changes

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2013
... limited recourse borrowing arrangements and they will be required to consider a client's complete financial circumstances. SPAA issued a facts sheet in November warning of the risks associated with the strategy and advised caution on the part of SMSF ...

SPAA welcomes Gov's tick of approval

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012
... its fund auditing qualification as a win for professionalism. The program offered by the SMSF Professionals' of Australia (SPAA) has always been about raising the bar to the highest possible standards for auditors in the SMSF sector, and the government ...

Brett Kenny joins SPAA board

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012
The SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) yesterday announced the appointment of Brett Kenny to the SPAA Board. He brings a wealth of experience as well as knowledge about the organisation to this role, having been actively involved in ...

Flexibility not returns, drive SMSFs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2012
... conducted by Rice Warner Actuaries (RWA), sponsored by Vanguard and supported by the SMSF Professionals Association of Australia (SPAA). Michael Rice, managing director of RWA, said 95% of SMSF trustee cited investment control as the primary reason behind ...

Understand borrowing laws warns ATO

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2012
... to make sure that their borrowing is ok by the law, he said. Yesterday the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) sent out a fact-sheet highlighting the risks trustees face when entering into a limited recourse borrowing arrangement (LRBA). ...

Market anxiety shrouds SMSF appetite for equities

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2012
... professionals recognise the true value there." Peter Burgess, technical director at the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) agrees that the global financial crisis has conspired to make investors far more reluctant to invest in risk assets. ...

Beware greedy SMSF intermediaries

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
... levels of complexity are a dangerous combination." Graham Colley, director of SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) says that the volume of work has been stable for five years now with around 2,500 SMSFs set up every month. He says that ...

Super concession cuts ignite SMSF debate

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2012
... 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 treatment is false and that ...

Former Count CEO joins Chase

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012
... managing partner at Deloitte and was president of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia. He is currently a board director with SPAA. Jordan retains his role as the Government's chief external tax adviser as chair of the Government's Business Tax Working ...

Gen Y leans away from SMSF cash holdings

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2012
... 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 members, particularly in terms ...