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Macquarie partners with Class Super for SMSF offering

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2012
SMSF trustees and advisers will now have access to a new low cost investment offering of selected ASX-listed securities after a joint initiative by Macquarie Specialist Investments and Class Super. Available now, self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) ...

SMSFs shift focus to property

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2012
SMSF trustees are slowly embracing property investments for fund investment strategies after the passing of limited recourse borrowing rules, although cash still holds allocation majority. According to information released in the latest Multiport SMSF ...

Female SMSF trustees narrow gender gap

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 23 JAN 2012
... according to Australia's peak SMSF body. Pointing to recently released figures from the tax office that reveal 46% of SMSF trustees are female, compared with 34 % of APRA regulated funds, the Self-Managed Super Fund Professionals' Association of Australia ...

New Count chief talks products

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 12 DEC 2011
... then the industry or retail market but it has been tricky to figure out how to provide for this group," said Lane. "SMSF trustees are a very disparate group so it is not as clear to understand what they want but it is a big opportunity and Count has ...

Super industry responds to MYEFO

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011
... markets," said Michael Lorimer, chair of SISFA. "The Government is recognising the reality of the world situation for SMSF trustees and is doing their part to help."

Multiport hits $2bn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2011
... enough SMSF's to provide in-house assistance and outsource to us, while others feel that the level of service that SMSF trustees are demanding is beyond what accounting practices have typically provided."

SMSFs in share buying mood

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 27 SEP 2011
... positive with 23% while 38% were neutral as to the immediate future of equities. AMSA chairman Grant Abboot said that SMSF trustees directly invest more than $160 billion in Australian equities, with tens of billions more through managed funds and listed ...

SMSFs feeling the age gap

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2011
The ageing demographics of SMSF trustees may prove to be the real issue for the sector, but that isn't holding it back with rising growth rates and surging fund numbers, heard delegates at a Women in Super event yesterday. Speaking at the event, Sarah ...

SMSFs given leeway on property assets

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2011
... needed to be in place," said Peter Burgess, national technical director, SPAA. "This made it very difficult for SMSF trustees and advisers to use the limited recourse borrowing arrangement rules to invest in certain assets to build for their retirement," ...

SMSFs cash deposits reflect volatility

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011
... Trends Self Managed Super Funds (SMSF) Report, released yesterday, found market volatility was the main cause behind SMSF trustees preference for cash products with excess cash attributing to 35% of SMSFs' total cash holdings. This is down from 53% in ...