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Advice and accounting align post-Royal Commission: CountPlus

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2019
... $100 a firm brings in, $60 will be from accounting services. The balance will come from financial planning and self-managed super fund services. It also found that most Australians who paid for advice received good value in return. This is despite the ...

Sargon launches SMSF alternative

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2019
Financial advisers and their clients now have an alternative to the traditional self-managed superannuation fund, with Sargon partnering with an $11.5 billion platform to launch a small APRA fund. Sargon has partnered with HUB24 to provide advisers ...

SMSF wind-ups spike: ATO

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2019
The number of self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) wind-ups shot up in the last 12-24 months, according to Australian Tax Office data. Latest ATO data reveals in 2014 the number of SMSF wind-ups was 12,654 and hovered around that point, reaching ...

SMSF gender gap reduces over time

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2019
... superannuation gap between men and women reduces over time in SMSFs yet remains significant. According to the self-managed super administrator, men have a 42% higher average balance than women when SMSFs are established. However, the gap reduces to 21% ...

Two new faces join SMSF Association board

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2019
The SMSF Association has added two self-managed super specialists to its board. Tracey Scotchbrook, vice chair of the West Australian Local Community, and Michael Houlihan, chair of the Victorian Local Community will join the board of the association. ...

Former Labor MP joins SMSFA

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2019
A former Parliamentary Secretary was appointed to the board of the Self-Managed Super Fund Association. Bernie Ripoll has joined the SMSFA board, in a move described by chair Deborah Ralston as "invaluable" to the ongoing evolution of superannuation ...

Former Millennium3 adviser banned

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2019
... understated the costs associated with implementation of his advice, particularly costs associated with running a self-managed super fund (SMSF). The ASIC surveillance revealed that the true costs of running the recommended SMSFs were significantly higher ...

Clime taps retail market

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2019
... chief executive Rod Bristow said: "It's becoming quite evident that self-directed investors, and especially self-managed super fund (SMSF) trustees, want ease of access to professional investment managers, and that is what the OpenInvest platform ...

Financial advice in 2030: What does it look like?

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2019
... WealthDigital believes. "Those fund managers providing active investment strategies will target direct investment and self-managed super funds. Insurers will be forced to look to new technologies and avenues to distribute their products with adviser-intermediated ...

SMSFs outshine industry funds for large balances

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2019
Industry superannuation fund satisfaction outranks retail funds in all categories, but failed to beat self-managed super funds when it comes to larger balances. This is according to Roy Morgan's latest Superannuation Satisfaction Report which found ...