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Streamlined SMSF software creates adviser revenue stream

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2012
... relationship with accountants and create the option to charge an administration fee to their increasing base of self-managed super funds (SMSF). With investment commissions removed by the FOFA reforms, advisers can earn a fee by charging for these administration ...

Resi property portal targets planners, SMSFs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2012
Residential property is an attractive asset class but choosing a property for a self-managed super fund (SMSF) is not as simple as choosing a property to live in or negatively gear yourself. SMSF investors need to factor in how their income and capital ...

Make sure the right people inherit your super

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
With death benefit disputes accounting for the lion's-share of complaints received by the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal, Topdocs has now incorporated a death benefit guardian provision in its SMSF trust deeds. The specialist self-managed superannuation ...

SPAA brands SuperStream costs illogical

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012
The Self Managed Super Funds Professional Association of Australia (SPAA) has dismissed calls by the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) for self managed super fund members to make significant contributions towards the SuperStream ...

AMP to acquire Cavendish

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012
... dedicated business unit under Paul Sainsbury. The new unit aims to capture a greater position for AMP in the $440bn self-managed super fund market, which is the largest and fastest growing superannuation sector. AMP SMSF will work with AMP Financial ...

SMSFs should pay SuperStream levy: AIST

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
Self-managed super funds are the biggest superannuation sector by dollars and will be major beneficiaries of the SuperStream reforms and so should contribute to the levy being imposed on other fund members, argues the AIST. Australian Institute of Superannuation ...

SMSF Trustees want compensation: SPAA

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2012
The Self Managed Super Fund professionals' Association of Australia has rejected calls for a levy to be imposed on SMSF trustees to fund a compensation scheme. In the wake of the Trio fraud there has been a misconception as to what the legal standing ...

More SMSF trustees go it alone

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2012
... main reasons SMSF investors are relying less on advice, according to the latest Vanguard and Investment Trends Self-managed Super Fund Report. The use of advisers by the SMSF sector declined 9% since the May 2011 survey, the report found, with 52% of ...

SMSF establishments continue down trend

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2012
Establishments of self-managed super funds numbered 7,152 in the March quarter, according to the latest Australian Taxation Office statistics, continuing the decline in numbers from the quarterly peak of 10,434 in September 2011. The latest figures ...

ASIC winds up unregistered managed investment scheme

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012
The Australian Securities & Investments Commission has obtained orders in the Supreme Court of New South Wales to wind up an unregistered managed investment scheme operated by Secured Bond Ltd. In proceedings on 28 May 2012, the Supreme Court also made ...