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Downturn presents brand opportunity

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2009
... conducted research to get people's perception of super funds and the industry using two focus groups: active members (such as SMSFs) and those who are indifferent to their super. The firm found that while superannuation had been on the front pages of ...

SMSF intl equities allocation halves

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2009
... has almost halved over a one and a half year period. The Multiport SMSF Survey - June 2009, which randomly selects 1,000 SMSFs it administers, found allocations to international shares had fallen from nearly 14 per cent in December 2007 to seven per ...

BGL signs on to OneVue SMA

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2009
More than 250,000 SMSFs can now more easily access SMAs after OneVue scored a major deal with BGL Financial Services. The white-labelled product will be known as SMSF Invest, and will be distributed by SMSF software provider BGL Corporate Solutions. ...

Super assets drop to $1.03trn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2009
... funds to $52 billion. Research from Rainmaker reveals that assets of self-managed funds fell to $320 billion, confirming SMSFs as the larger segment of the market by a significant margin. Corporate master trust assets increasing marginally to $65 billion ...

Super assets to hit $2 trn by 2015: Deloitte

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2009
... Deloitte predicts assets under the superannuation industry to hit $2 trillion in under six years, with industry funds and SMSFs taking the lion's share of projected post-retirement assets. Deloitte's actuaries, using the firm's superannuation model which ...

SMSFs beware the taxman

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2009
... the poor standards of a "minority" of trustees. And this year, the ATO is again lifting its compliance activities aimed at SMSFs. The most common breaches of superannuation law by new trustees in 2007-08 had been making loans to members and other related ...

Super breakthrough for SMAs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2009
... can only access SMAs either through their non-super money (their own savings) or if they have a self-managed super fund (SMSFs). Stuart Fechner, the head of the new division, said that their version of the SMA means millions of people who previously ...

Bonnie and Clyde team caught for fraud

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2009
... to ASIC, White "misled investors" and "acted dishonestly" by encouraging them to roll their superannuation savings into SMSFs established by the company. It was a move that let him gain access to the funds through a hidden power of attorney clause. The ...

Cavendish slashes SMSF starting fees

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
... establishment fees of new self-managed super funds - easing the cost for financial advisers with clients looking to set up SMSFs. SMSF specialist Cavendish announced that establishment fees for all new funds commenced after last Friday would be reduced ...

Praemium scales back ops

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
... administers over $27 billion of assets as of March this year on behalf of major fund managers, financial planners, accountants and SMSFs.