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SPAA brands SuperStream costs illogical

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012
The Self Managed Super Funds Professional Association of Australia (SPAA) has dismissed calls by the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) for self managed super fund members to make significant contributions towards the SuperStream ...

SMSFs should pay SuperStream levy: AIST

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
... the super industry will benefit from these efficiency measures, we think it is fair and reasonable that self managed super funds - which are now the biggest component in the industry - pay their share of the costs," she said. The AIST has just lodged ...

HIP Super enters advice partnership

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2012
... according to Bernays. "Bridges will also provide financial advice for past HIP members who have moved into Self Managed Super Funds (SMSF) and are struggling to manage the complexity and cost associated with administration and would now like to move ...

ATO clarifies borrowing issues for SMSFs

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAY 2012
... Tax Commissioner has brought some clear-thinking to issues surrounding borrowing and single assets by self managed super funds, said Andrea Slattery, chief executive officer of the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA). The ruling has clarified ...

Property syndicate launches for HNW and SMSFs

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2012
... Charter Hall Direct Property has launched a new single property syndicate for high net worth investors and self managed super funds, in response to growing demand for investment opportunities in Perth's CBD. "We are currently in one of the best buying ...

PIMCO appoints new portfolio specialist

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2012
... Australia PIMCO manages more than $30 billion across fixed income funds and strategies for large super funds, self managed super funds, institutional and individual investors.

AIA partners with AGI

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2012
AIA Australia has partnered with Australian Group Insurance to offer self managed super funds online access to insurance at wholesale rates. The SMSF Master Insurance Plan represents AIA Australia's first targeted offering to the SMSF sector, which ...

SMSFs the new retail

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2012
... SMSF market is an untapped resource for many advisers who should capitalise on the growing popularity of self managed super funds. That's according to Alex Francois, head of distribution, investments at Provident Capital, who believes SMSFs are the new ...

Female SMSF trustees narrow gender gap

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 23 JAN 2012
... women plan for their retirement. The figures also show that the average female balance relating to the self managed super funds sector (SMSF) in the year 2008-09 was $439,000, compared with an average balance of $22,000 for women in all other super funds ...

SMSFs dominating super assets

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 13 DEC 2011
... twice the rate of total super industry assets in the past five years to June 30 2010. According to the "Self Managed Super Funds: a Statistical Overview" report, the overall growth in Self-Managed Super Fund (SMSF) is down to a rise in the number of ...