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Nominations open for AFA Excellence in Education Award

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) is calling for nominations for the seventh AFA Excellence in Education Award, which will be presented in October at the AFA National Conference in Cairns. The award recognises advisers who invest in themselves ...

SPAA launches online CPD tool

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014
The SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) has launched an online tool compliant with the continuing professional development (CPD) program. The CPD Compass tool is an online questionnaire available to the association's members and designed ...

Could government issue its own annuities?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2014
... longevity, infrastructure, and inflation linked bonds. Most submissions that dealt with this topic - including the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA), the Actuaries Institute, UniSuper and Challenger - focused on the need to remove ...

SMSFs want access to infrastructure and corporate bonds

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2014
... infrastructure and corporate bonds more accessible to self-managed super funds (SMSFs), the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) has argued. SMSFs currently invest heavily in cash and Australian equities, but hold very little in middle ...

IPA joins calls for LISC reintroduction

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
... calling for a rethink include the Financial Planning Association (FPA), the Financial Services Council (FSC), The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA), The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) and Industry Super Australia ...

AFA focuses FSI submission on FoFA "misinformation campaign"

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) have asked the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) to consider whether the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) should have stepped in to address what the association calls a "campaign of misinformation" ...

Viable SMSF size underestimated

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
... when you look at performance averages. The same is true of large superannuation funds" said SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) director of technical and professional standards Graeme Colley. "In general, the ATO data tells us that SMSFs ...

ASFA and AIST push for tighter regulation of SMSFs

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
... System Inquiry to call for tighter regulation of the self-managed superannuation funds (SMSF) sector. Both the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australian (ASFA), which represents all prudentially-regulated super funds, and the Australian Institute ...

SPAA and Macquarie to investigate SMSFs

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2014
The SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) and Macquarie will investigate SMSF business models in a newly launched survey that is targeting financial advisers, accountants, administrators and stockbrokers. The findings of the survey will ...

Industry heralds government capital recycling plan

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2014
... infrastructure projects. It has promised to cover the cost of an extra 15% of state projects that are funded in this way. Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA's) chief executive Pauline Vamos said such a model will help boost superannuation ...