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Challenger acquires SMSF business

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2013
Challenger Limited has entered into an agreement to acquire self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) actuarial certificate provider Bendzulla Actuarial. According to Challenger, Bendzulla has a market share of more than 50% serviced through relationships ...

BGL partners with Australia Post on SuperStream

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2013
Self-managed super fund (SMSF) administration software provider BGL Corporate Solutions has teamed up with Australia Post to provide SuperStream services to its clients. Under the partnership, Australia Post will provide BGL clients with SuperStream ...

Gloomy outlook forces Crowe Horwath to trim business

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2013
... business distractions and bedding down current, longer term benefit projects including cloud accounting and a comprehensive SMSF administration service," the company said in a statement in the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). Financial advisers ...

SMSFs eye offshore assets

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2013
Self-managed super fund (SMSF) investors have signaled much stronger appetite for investing offshore compared to their non-self-managed counterparts. According to the latest Certitude Global Investing Intentions Index (CGIII) report, 50% of SMSF investors ...

Industry funds should offer SMSFs: QMV

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2013
... come out of left field for many in the industry, Goodall said there was no reason why industry funds shouldn't develop the SMSF capabilities that banks have. "You'd have a financial advisor, you'd have an accountant. The technology that most industry ...

SPAA defends status quo on SMSF regulation

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2013
The self-managed superannuation super (SMSF) sector is not being poorly regulated, according to SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) chief executive Andrea Slattery. Slattery's comments came in response to a recent survey in which around ...

AUI Healthcare Property Trust added to North platform

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2013
AMP has added the Australian Unity Healthcare Property Trust to its North platform. Australian Unity Investments head of retail distribution Damen Purcell said the move is a sign of the growth in demand for quality unlisted property investments that ...

Legg Mason appeals to retail after lowering minimum investment

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2013
Legg Mason Australia (Legg Mason) is targeting the self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) market and has reduced the minimum investment for five funds. The minimum initial investment amount is now $30,000 for the Australian Real Income, Australian ...

OneVue appoints senior distribution executive

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2013
... strategy, sales and service. Storm joins from IOOF where he was head of distribution for Australian Executor Trustees, the SMSF provider for the IOOF group. Storm will work with existing sales executive Stephen Karrasch to broaden OneVue's distribution ...

Performance, fees still major retention risk

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2013
... members who switched. Concerns over performance was meanwhile the major reason people set up a self - managed super fund (SMSF), with 50% of people opening these funds saying it was the main reason. Only 14% of people who switched into an industry fund ...