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Cambooya appoints new CEO

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
... Greenwood Challoner & Co / Greenwood BKT and PriceWaterhouseCoopers and has more than 20 years' experience as a chartered accountant. Cambooya is a single-family office handing the financial management and long-term generational planning of various branches ...

Discretion strictly case-by-case in new SMSF audit scheme

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2012
Discretion will be applied on a strictly case-by-case basis, for accountants registering with the Australian Securities & Investments Commission's self managed super fund auditor program. Requirements such as tertiary qualifications, an exam and other ...

ATO stands up for compliant SMSFs on levy use

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012
ATO assistant commissioner Stuart Forsyth has told an industry event it is unfair compliant SMSFs have to see a portion of their levy go towards catching out those funds which do not operate properly. Forsyth said the current open registration system ...

SuperIQ acquires Smartsuper

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2012
Self-managed super fund (SMSF) provider SuperIQ has acquired former Perpetual business Smartsuper in the latest wave of consolidation in the space. Acquisitions in the SMSF space are proving commonplace as businesses attempt to build client bases during ...

MLC appoints super funds board member

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012
... accountable to around 1.5 million members and approximately $56 billion in Funds Under Management. Rassi is a chartered accountant who spent more than 34 years at Deloitte, where he was made partner in 1996, and was instrumental in building the firm's ...

Talkin' bout my generation

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2012
Two leading industry associations expect the next generation of advice clients to be attracted to financial advisers possessing the right soft skills, industry-specific education and strong ethics. The differences between the service offerings of Gen ...

My Adviser offers accountants licensing package

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2012
My Adviser group has launched a specialist authority licensee package to enable accountants to continue to provide advice on SMSFs and superannuation following the changes to the accountant exemption in the FOFA reforms. Currently, accountants can provide ...

SMSF auditor competency education push

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2012
Details of the registration regime for auditors working in the SMSF sector, announced this week by superannuation minister Minister Bill Shorten, are broadly been in line with industry expectations although questions still remain around quality assurance. ...

New accountants' licence hailed as win for affordable advice

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2012
The federal government's new conditional licensing regime for accountants has been applauded by professional bodies as a step to achieving broader access to financial advice. CPA Australia chief executive officer Alex Malley said the new rules are a ...

Compliance hurdles too high on PAFs

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012
Converting a private ancillary fund to a public ancillary fund should be made easier, in order to support philanthropic giving in the current economic climate. That was the message from Andrew Thomas, general manager of philanthropy at Perpetual, speaking ...