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Charter Hall makes $214m warehouse play

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2020
... pipeline, utilising the combined capacity of its suite of funds to secure properties not ordinarily available to retail, HNW and SMSF investors." DIF4 fund manager Miriam Patterson said the acquisition will support the fund's current dividend yield of ...

Legg Mason subsidiary cuts performance fees

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2020
... "We continue to believe that this is a time when select listed infrastructure can significantly fortify an individual or SMSF portfolio on the basis that certain infrastructure assets can be shown to offer significant downside protection." The RARE Infrastructure ...

Super fund satisfaction mixed, SMSFs unhappy

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2020
At a time when many Australians are engaging directly with their superannuation fund for the first time, member satisfaction appears mixed, with two separate surveys producing some opposing views. That's according to the latest insights from Roy Morgan ...

APRA funds can learn from SMSFs: Rice Warner

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020
... retirement product." Rice Warner suggested that holding the superannuation assets of a couple within the same fund, such as an SMSF, materially improves the ability to facilitate the delivery of better financial advice. On the investments front, Rice ...

Vanguard launches SMSF functionality

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2020
... either individual or corporate trustee structures and who meet the eligibility criteria can open a Vanguard Personal Investor SMSF from today. "Vanguard Personal Investor offers investors a differentiated focus compared to their current brokerage account," ...

New requirements for SMSFs

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2020
... intend to change their trust deed after 1 July 2021 should remove such a clause if they wish to continue preparing SPFS. "Most SMSF trust deeds refer to the financial statements being prepared in accordance with the super laws and do not refer to the ...

ATO data heaps pressure on ASIC's SMSF fact sheet

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2020
New ATO data has brought ASIC's SMSF expense fact sheet under renewed pressure. Freshly released ATO figures show the median "operating expense" of SMSFs is $3923 a year, a stark contrast from data published by ASIC last year which stipulated the ...

COVID-19 brings trading boom

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2020
... the last quarter, with trading volumes rising by 95% and logins up about 50% across March, April and May. nabTrade director SMSF and investor behaviour Gemma Dale said the platform has never seen such interest from Australia's mum and dad investors. ...

HESTA asks Retirement Income Review to consider ERS

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020
... Callaghan and includes two other panelists in former Future Fund board member and banker Carolyn Kay and former chair of SMSF Association Deborah Ralston. About two weeks after the announcement, Women in Super wrote to the Treasurer asking for a specific ...

FIIG calls for taxation, regulatory overhaul

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020
... said this will have a little impact on forward estimates of the commonwealth, particularly if it were to apply solely to SMSF portfolios, where asset allocation is most relevant and should reflect best practise. However, it will reduce the burden on ...