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BGL partners with COIN on SMSFs

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2010
BGL Corporate Solutions (BGL) and COIN has signed a deal to provide software services to financial advisers with SMSF clients. The new partnership will allow advisers to import client data through COIN's software, for integration with BGL's Simple Fund ...

Industry fund members switch to SMSFs

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
... 17 per cent. Uwe Helmes, Investment Trends analyst, said 24 per cent of industry fund members say they plan to set up an SMSF when they switch. The increase should come as no surprise as SMSFs continue to be the fastest growing segment of the superannuation ...

Longevity products in early stages

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 11 NOV 2010
... name suggests, MLIG can be used to add a lifetime income guarantee on top of conventional self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) account-based pensions and transition to retirement (TTR) strategies.

BlackRock to expand retail arm

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 11 NOV 2010
... are creating a version that will allow individuals to invest their superannuation monies into it without having to set up a SMSF." "Having that sort of structure will be very beneficial for advisers and their clients to access it in that regard." BlackRock ...

The SMSF debt binge

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 9 NOV 2010
... another 40 per cent of SMSFs ready to embrace gearing over the next 12 months. According to an online survey of over 1,900 SMSF trustees, 470 financial planners and 470 accountants by researcher Investment Trends, just seven per cent of SMSFs currently ...

The changing face of super: State Street

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 1 NOV 2010
Australia's superannuation sector is expected to top $6 trillion over the next 25 years - as investors move to tap more aged-linked investments, SMSFs continue their rapid growth and super funds bring more of their investments in-house, according to ...

Australians willing to pay just $300 for advice

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2010
... plan ($420). The trend for investors looking to pay low fees can also been seen in the self-managed super fund sector, where SMSF clients are increasingly sensitive to fees following the financial crisis. A separate report from Investment Trends noted ...

RewardSuper and Fin Synergy improve SMSF admin

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2010
... partnership could see advisers save up to 50 per cent of their time working on the administration work related to servicing SMSF clients, said Wolf Schumacher, director of RewardSuper. The deal will see Financial Synergy's Acurity and RewardSuper's RSDataWeb ...

All cashed up and ready to pounce

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2010
... survey released in February this year found t hat more than one third of survey respondents holdover 50 per cent of their SMSF investments in cash. Alex Twigg, general manager Ubank, said that cash is a respite but also a "launch pad for acquisition". ...

Investors demand 'transactional' advice

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2010
Self managed super fund (SMSF) investors are tapping advice-centric technology to cultivate a 'transactional' type of relationship with their financial planner as opposed to the conventional lifelong relationship approach. Matthew Harrington, principle ...