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SMSFs targeted in $428k swindle

ASIC RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2009
... charged with aiding and abetting dishonest conduct for stealing nearly half a million dollars from self-managed super fund (SMSF) trustees. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) investigation led to Victorian-based Shaun White sentenced ...

Bassanese opens ETF consultancy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2009
... funds (ETFs) when he set up his new ETF research and consulting business for financial planners and self managed super fund (SMSF) trustees. Bassanese opened North Bondi-based research and consulting business, PennyWise Investment in June this year after ...

FPA and SPAA sign MOU

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2009
... self-managed super funds (SPAA) and for financial planners (FPA) have joined forces to develop policies that will help shape the SMSF sector. Both associations signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to work together on policy, professional development ...

ASIC cracks down on MIS scammer

ASIC RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2009
ASIC has turned its attention on a managed investment scheme (MIS) operator, James Kentwell Lovell, who allegedly fleeced $7.9 million from 200 investors, including self-managed super funds. On 29 July 2009, ASIC obtained interim orders in the Supreme ...

Downturn presents brand opportunity

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2009
Super funds have the power to restore public confidence in superannuation, which quickly eroded after the GFC, by investing more on their brands, said the marketing firm behind the successful 'Kevin 07'campaign. Marketing firm, Lawrence Creative Strategy ...

SMSF intl equities allocation halves

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2009
Self managed super fund (SMSF) allocations to international shares has almost halved over a one and a half year period. The Multiport SMSF Survey - June 2009, which randomly selects 1,000 SMSFs it administers, found allocations to international shares ...

BGL signs on to OneVue SMA

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2009
... easily access SMAs after OneVue scored a major deal with BGL Financial Services. The white-labelled product will be known as SMSF Invest, and will be distributed by SMSF software provider BGL Corporate Solutions. BGL Financial Services director, Mark ...

SMSF trustee group closes

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2009
... SMSMA members free membership till the end of the year with the option becoming a paying member in 2010. "We're running some SMSF seminars about administering a SMSF before the end of the year and we have a SMSF bulletin so we're hoping to retain at ...

Super assets drop to $1.03trn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2009
Super fund assets have fallen to $1.03 trillion at end March 2009, their lowest level since December 2006, according to the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA). Superannuation assets are now down 17 per cent from their peak of $1.24 trillion ...

Super assets to hit $2 trn by 2015: Deloitte

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2009
... segment in pre-retirement and post retirement assets over a 20-year period. The research identified self managed super funds (SMSF) and industry super funds would experience the highest growth of 11 per cent or more between 2009 and 2028 in the pre-retirement ...