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Cavendish buys Bendzulla Actuarial

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2010
... brings together Bendzulla's actuarial and online retirement services with Cavendish's operations as an administrator of SMSFs and non-superannuation investment portfolios. "The Bendzulla business extends our operational horizons significantly and is ...

Cooper wants collectables banned from SMSFs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2010
SMSFs should be banned from including collectables and 'personal use' assets into their fund and will be subject to tougher penalties if they break the rules, according to the preliminary recommendations of the Cooper Review released today.In the SMSF ...

NAB/AXA merger not anti-competitive: research

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2010
... industry funds, government funds and self-managed super funds (SMSF). To exclude these major competitors (industry funds and SMSFs) from the analysis of the takeover would be wrong given they are all "effectively 'retail' funds from the consumers' point ...

SMSFs take up superMate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2010
... Technology reported an 80 per cent take up of its superMate software among new users and confirmed that by February, over 2000 SMSFs were using the service. According to a press statement, the large take-up of the superMate software came from new users ...

Accounting bodies launch SMSF learning tool

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2010
... Self Managed Superannuation Fund Trustee Education Program follows the release of Competency Requirements for Auditors of SMSFs which was adopted by all members of the JAB in 2008. The SMSF trustee education tool is available at www.smsftrustee.com.

SMSFs breach less ATO rules

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2010
... personal loans to members - continue to plague the sector. According to the latest Partners Superannuation Services' research, SMSFs in breach of fund rules have dropped by over 4 per cent - from 11.3 per cent in 2008 to 7.2 per cent last year. The Partners' ...

Hands off SMSFs, warns assoc

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2010
... told the government to keep its hands off the sector and forget about trying to impose any new compliance requirements. "SMSFs are self managed," said Jolyon Forsyth, AIA president. "There should be no change to the current practices in relation to investment ...

Angel in the detail: Cooper's cost cutting measures

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2010
... adopting 'auto-consolidation', Cooper said the average super fund can save up to 25 per cent in back-office costs. As for SMSFs, which are excluded from the super stream model, the Review is also looking at how to drive efficiencies there even though ...

Caution drives SMSFs to remain in cash: survey

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2010
More than half of self managed super fund (SMSF) trustees are not planning to change their cash allocation, according to a new survey, despite more than a third of respondents stating over half their assets are parked in the asset class. The Ubank survey ...

Multiport upgrades UMA service

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2010
Multiport has improved its unified managed account offer by upgrading its model portfolio management system - allowing SMSFs to use model portfolios alongside their direct investments on the same Multiport service. The move allows dealer groups to operate ...