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NAB makes key Asset Servicing appointments

HARRY PAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2014
... with clients in recent time. According to half-yearly sector figures released by the Australian Custodial Services Association (ACSA) released in September 2013 NAB remained the biggest custodian with $556 billion in total assets under custody for Australian ...

SPAA to use networking technology at conference

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2014

ATO figures nail in coffin for SMSF critics: SPAA

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014
... that self-managed super fund (SMSF) trustees are using their funds responsibly, according to the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA). According to Australian Tax Office figures, in the 2011-12 financial year, SMSFs withdrew $22.3 billion ...

Advisers should train to fight tax evasion: FPA

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2014
... train financial advisers on identifying and avoiding cases of tax evasion and money laundering, the Financial Planning Association (FPA) said. The FPA general manager of policy and government relations Dante De Gori told Financial Standard that the organisation ...

Appleyard defends free SMSF service

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2014
... super fund [SMSF] service for every Australian." Yesterday Financial Standard reported that the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) had warned that organisations offering to set up SMSFs for free may be misleading potential clients, and ...

SPAA questions 'free lunch' SMSF service

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2014
... (SMSF) start-up services may have hidden costs and catches, according the Graeme Colley of the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia. SPAA's criticism comes after news that Clever Super intends to launch its free SMSF service in mid-2014. When ...

Fears to FoFA amendments "overplayed": AFA

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2014
... duty of the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation will affect the quality of advice are "overplayed," the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) said. "Improving the best interest duty does help improve the access and the affordability to financial ...

Hillross awards advisers amid AMP restructure

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2014
... Hillross network. The winners are determined by an expert panel of industry representatives, including Financial Planning Association (FPA) chief executive Mark Rantall and AMP's chief customer officer Paul Sainsbury.

New ATO powers to decrease SMSF 'delinquency'

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2014
... ignore or breach their obligations on a regular basis." Andrea Slattery, chief executive of the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) agreed. "Under the current law, the system is far too inflexible - the ATO only has draconian penalties ...

FPA condemns FoFA fear mongers

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2014
The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) has urged planners to "rise above the noise of tired, product-centric arguments" in the early days of the watered-down Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reforms. On 20 December 2013 Assistant Treasurer ...