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SMSF service industry comes of age: Survey

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2014
A newly published survey of the self-managed super fund (SMSF) sector reveals a large, flourishing and enormously diverse industry, with no single business model dominating. Jointly published by the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) ...

FEATURE: In search of the missing asset class

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
... figures mean that Australia's institutional allocation is not just low - it is rock bottom, the lowest of all OECD members. The self-managed super (SMSF) sector is even more thinly spread across fixed income assets. Figures sourced by Rice Warner and ...

Adviser appetite for infrastructure investments increasing

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
... head of Australian infrastructure Geoff Frankish. Currently infrastructure investments make up less than 1% of the average self-managed super fund (SMSF) but Frankish says advisers are beginning to understand the value of increasing allocations in their ...

Platinum steps up focus on adviser market

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2014
... top-performing international shares strategy within the adviser market. Neilson has identified an opportunity within the burgeoning self-managed super fund (SMSF) market. "We're trying to encourage more Australian money to go abroad because we've just ...

2014 MAX Award Winners and Finalists

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014

Delay in SG rise 'disappointing', says industry

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014
... super contributions to ensure ordinary working Australians enjoy a better standard of living in retirement." Representing the self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) sector, the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) also expressed disappointed ...

Budget forces advisers to rethink tax, retirement strategies

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
... eligibility age; especially on those working on physical jobs and "unlikely to be able to retire at 70," Fox said. He also noted self-managed super fund (SMSF) advisers should look at the government's focus on infrastructure investment. "SMSF advisers ...

Managed accounts take-up jump 63%: survey

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
... direct threat. Crucially, they present additional opportunities for fund managers that want to reach financial advisers and self-managed super funds (SMSFs). But to put in context, managed accounts still represent an estimated $20 billion in FUA, meaning ...

Cbus to launch 'self-managed' product

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2014
... direct investment (MDI) option in mid-2014, following the lead of a number of other industry funds seeking to stem the flow to self-managed super funds (SMSFs). Referring to the new option as a 'self-managed product', Cbus chief executive David Atkin ...

SMSFs want access to infrastructure and corporate bonds

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2014
... System Inquiry should look into ways of making direct investment in 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 ...