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Cloud software brings pay-per-audit revolution

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011
... provider Sage HandiSoft has created an audit application for SMSFs that is accessed online and stored in the cloud. Auditflow SMSF enables auditors to pay per audit rather than for a license. Richard Neal, chief executive and founder of Auditflow said ...

FOFA divides on commission

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2011
... remove distortions and will ensure a level playing field for individual insurance policies. This is a positive measure for the SMSF sector," said Andrea Slattery, chief executive, SPAA. Meanwhile, the Industry Super Network (ISN) has applauded FOFA ...

Perpetual posts results, buy-back option

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2011
... including the closure of its Dublin-based International Share funds manufacturing capability and the sale of the smartsuper SMSF administration business. "We have made significant progress with the implementation of a first series of outcomes from the ...

SPAA board appoints comms specialist

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2011
... as the Stronger Super and Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms discuss potential consolidation for the $432 billion SMSF sector. "Robin is highly regarded in the financial services industry and the self managed sector and we expect his appointment ...

Help for advisers with super death tax impact on SMSFs

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011
... for capital gains tax (CGT) liabilities to be imposed on the sale of real estate, especially since property held outside an SMSF and left to adult children in a will is exempt from CGT under certain conditions. SMSF specialist firm, The SMSF Academy ...

Perpetual divests to focus on international equities

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2011
... its international equities space. In line with these reviews, Perpetual announced it has sold its self-managed super fund (SMSF) administration business, smartsuper. "When you look at the SMSF market, it is a big market that is very fragmented and it ...

SMSFs exposed in related party transactions

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2011
... in a business-like manner as they would for anybody else. The transaction terms are allowed to be more favourable to the SMSF but not to the other party. But Siu said most funds were better off just using market rates as there were complicated legal ...

SMSFs could use email for SuperStream

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2011
... continues in Adelaide next Tuesday, Perth next Wednesday and Brisbane on August 23, and incorporates a series of technical SMSF workshops.

Large super funds 'obstruct' withdrawals

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2011
... an ideal world a transfer should take no more than 30 days," said Tony Negline, general manager of corporate strategy for SMSF deed services provider SUPERCentral. "In practice many of them are taking a lot longer than that." Negline said the issue was ...

SMSFs can use tax rule to save thousands conference told

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011
... to lower death benefits, Burgess said in some instances it can lead to the reverse thanks to anti-detriment rules. In an SMSF Legislative and Technical Update, Burgess outlined a scenario whereby thousands of dollars could be saved in a fund whose assets ...