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Ord Minnett raises $600 million

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2010
... Gunning said he is looking for financial advice experts in assisting high net worth clients, including self managed super fund (SMSF) trustees. Gunning runs Ord Minnett Private Wealth, Portfolio Services, Funds Management and Corporate Finance businesses. ...

Cooper wants collectables banned from SMSFs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2010
... penalties if they break the rules, according to the preliminary recommendations of the Cooper Review released today.In the SMSF Phase Three - Preliminary Report, the panel acknowledged SMSF trustees should be free to choose investments but that 'collectables' ...

AXA upgrades insurance in super

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2010
... AXA Australia. AXA Australia customers can now link their non-super trauma and TPD options to a self managed super fund (SMSF)-owned life insurance plan, as a result of the upgrade. Rosengren said this enhancement allows customers to access tax effective ...

NAB/AXA merger not anti-competitive: research

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2010
... market with the majority 70 per cent, in fact, shared between industry funds, government funds and self-managed super funds (SMSF). To exclude these major competitors (industry funds and SMSFs) from the analysis of the takeover would be wrong given they ...

SPAA appoints Shirlow to board

SPAA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2010
... Burgess' role as technical director at SPAA has been changed to a full-time position. Burgess is a self managed super fund (SMSF) Specialist Advisor (SSA) and he most recently worked at independent financial planning group Kingston Capital. He has been ...

Trustees urged to review power of attorney

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2010
Self managed super fund (SMSF) trustees should look over the fine print of their enduring powers of attorney documents for their fund because state and territory law can affect when and how that power is moved. Enduring power of attorney refers to the ...

SMSFs take up superMate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2010
Supercorp Technology reported an 80 per cent take up of its superMate software among new users and confirmed that by February, over 2000 SMSFs were using the service. According to a press statement, the large take-up of the superMate software came from ...

OneVue and BGL to white label UMA

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2010
... UMA Select, provides AFS advisers with technology that assists with the initial client contact, self managed super fund (SMSF) formation and generating daily reports for clients. UMA Select includes an investment menu that integrates a separately managed ...

Accounting bodies launch SMSF learning tool

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2010
... of Chartered Accountants in Australia and the National Institute of Accountants to develop a free online training tool for SMSF trustees. The tool, Self Managed Superannuation Fund Trustee Education Program, is a public interest initiative of the Joint ...

NSW man sentenced for early super release

ASIC RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2010
Another one bites the dust - SMSF trustee Atan Ona Kassongo joins the growing list of offenders caught unlawfully allowing early access to his super fund. Kassongo, of Castle Hill, New South Wales, has been sentenced to two years imprisonment, to be ...