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MainstreamBPO partners with DomaCom

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2013
... also lists fund house Perpetual as a partner, was founded in 2011 to provide a property asset allocation solution for the SMSF market. DomaCom chief executive Arthur Naoumidis said the agreement 'completes the operational jigsaw' as it prepares to launch ...

SFG FUA grow 8% to $11.6bn

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2013
... The group has also announced the acquisition of Lachlan Partners from 22 February. Lachlan Partners is an accounting, tax, SMSF and advice business servicing family office, high net worth and private company clients from its offices in Sydney, Melbourne ...

New regime for accountants: Shorten

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2013
Speaking at an industry briefing, Federal minister for financial services and superannuation Bill Shorten has thanked the Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICAA) for its input in proposed rules regarding the provision of financial advice. The Institute ...

ATO upgrades SMSF and SuperSeeker website

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
The Australian Taxation Office is conducting a survey of SMSF trustees to investigate if it should put more SMSF tax interpretations on their website. To ascertain the type of SMSF information trustees and service providers want, they are conducting ...

SMSFs drive ASX growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
Self Managed Super Funds (SMSF) are boosting the health of the local bourse, with $165 billion of their assets invested in Exchange products, making up 38 per cent of total exchange assets. Exchange Traded Products (ETP) is on top of the SMSF product ...

Latest Financial Standard issue available on the iPad app

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2013
In the new edition of Financial Standard, we publish our coverage of the annual SPAA SMSF conference, feature opinion pieces from fund managers Tyndall and Threadneedle, and the latest industry news, views and executive appointments. You can read them ...

Smart beta ETF take-up to double in 2013

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013
... Management expects the popularity of 'smart beta' exchange traded funds (ETFs) to double by the end of the year. According to UBS, SMSF trustees' and financial advisers' rising acceptance of these types of products is fuelling rapid growth in the sector. ...

SMSF adviser escapes jail time with suspended sentence

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013
A former self-managed superannuation adviser was yesterday sentenced to a suspended year and a half in jail after he tricked clients into buying his own shares. Craig Dangar was yesterday sentenced in the Downing Centre District Court, to concurrent ...

ASIC slaps biggest fine ever

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013
Financial services watchdog ASIC has handed out a record fine of $500k to a man who ran a $30 million scam targeting SMSFs. David Hobbs of Nelson, New Zealand, who was described as the "mastermind" behind more than a dozen unregistered offshore managed ...

Industry groups join forces to mount super campaign

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2013
... no further changes will be made to superannuation. This morning both the Financial Services Council and the newly-formed SMSF Owners' Alliance gave Federal Government a March 12 deadline, the date parliament resumes, to rule out tax changes to superannuation. ...