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Cooper Review calls for SMSF structure overhaul

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2009
... it deals with illegal early release schemes, the credentials of accountants and financial planners that offer advice to SMSFs and whether certain financial assets currently allowed should be banned. The Issues Paper on the structure of super funds, including ...

Universal model tough to execute

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2009
... with no choices needed to be made by the member, noted the report. With the other sections of the model centered around SMSFs, choice and disconnected members, the idea is to place members at the heart of super. However, Andrew Barr, Australian Institute ...

Super up again to $1.2 tr

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2009
... billion. Not-for-profit funds with a combined total of $427 billion in assets lead the pool however, closely followed by SMSFs. Contemporary platforms with $254 billion, according to Rainmaker, are a distant third. Total contributions are estimated by ...

SMSFs turn to advisers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2009
... investors are more likely to change their portfolio because of market volatility, the survey found. The survey also found SMSFs are looking to increase their fund contributions and are seeking to cut their exposure to cash, fixed income and managed funds. ...

AXA Asia Pacific taps SMSFs, restructures fees

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2009
AXA Asia Pacific makes a big push into the SMSFs sector, flags plans to remove all entry, exit and trail commission products from its APLs and unbundle advice fees from product fees on all of AXA's on-sale products. In an investor presentation today ...

SMSFs not exempt from tough reviews: Bowen

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2009
... sector's accountability, efficiency and governance issues. Speaking at the ASFA conference this morning, Minister Bowen said SMSFs "cannot consider itself exempt from the types of accountability, efficiency and governance" that are currently being put ...

SMSFs tip more into international equities

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2009
... 50 per cent cut to the sector in 31 December last year. Managed funds remain the top choice of investment vehicle among SMSFs, and only dipped from 9.5 per cent at the end of 2007, to 7 per cent at 30 September. At the other end of the spectrum, SMSFs ...

Warning signs in consumer wealth report

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2009
... managers celebrate too loudly, they are battling to reach beyond Australia's wealthiest people and independent investors using SMSFs are the most satisfied. The results are contained in Roy Morgan's latest Superannuation & Wealth Management in Australia ...

FPs and accountants at odds on SMSF strategies

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2009
... difference in investment implementation approaches is because fewer accountants view investment platforms as appropriate for SMSFs, and the rate that do is falling. Among those accountants that said platforms were not appropriate for platforms, a third ...

Too many choices, too many fees: academic

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2009
... rather than the interests of the service providers," he said. Rainmaker estimates that Australia's 600 super funds, excluding SMSFs, offer consumers more than 70,000 investment options. Evans comments follow calls by former Treasurer Peter Costello that ...