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Accountant guilty of operating 21 unregistered schemes

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2014
A Melbourne accountant has pleaded guilty to 27 criminal charges including charges of operating 21 unregistered managed investment schemes. Accountant Mark Ronald Letten pleaded guilty following an investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments ...

Appleyard defends free SMSF service

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2014
... the consumer. Appleyard said, in its paid service, CleverSuper currently looks after more than 500 industry bodies, accountant practices, planners and mortgage brokers. However, he would not say how many members had set up SMSFs through CleverSuper ...

Advisers and accountants clash over SMSFs

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2014
... head of SMSF and Superannuation Susie Salmon said. "The challenge is the lack of communication and the fact that the accountant industry, which has always set up the SMSF, will now feel that they can't," Salmon told Financial Standard. Appointed on February ...

New ATO powers to decrease SMSF 'delinquency'

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2014
Plans to increase the power of the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) to penalise self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) on a sliding scale will provide a more nuanced way of penalising 'delinquent trustees', according to Superannuation Australia's ...

Financial Index offers $130m for Centric Wealth

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2014
Financial Index Wealth Accountants (FIWA) has entered into an agreement to purchase advisory firm Centric Wealth, in a move that will create one of Australia's largest financial advisory businesses not owned by a mainstream institution, with more than ...

Challenger acquires SMSF business

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2013
Challenger Limited has entered into an agreement to acquire self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) actuarial certificate provider Bendzulla Actuarial. According to Challenger, Bendzulla has a market share of more than 50% serviced through relationships ...

One-stop-shop firms surge to gain scale against big instos

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2013
The number of partnerships and mergers between financial planning and accountancy firms is increasing as independent businesses brace to gain scale against the big institutionally-aligned groups. Industry concentration in the past years has strengthened ...

Industry funds should offer SMSFs: QMV

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2013
... industry funds shouldn't develop the SMSF capabilities that banks have. "You'd have a financial advisor, you'd have an accountant. The technology that most industry funds have at the moment wouldn't be able to cater for the reporting and the like. But ...

SPAA defends status quo on SMSF regulation

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2013
... several points. While approximately half of SMSF trustees do not use a financial planner, she said almost all use an accountant, an auditor and a stockbroker. She also said most SMSF trustees were well-qualified to manage their own retirement savings. ...

Kinetic Super appoints director to replace Fisher

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2013
Kinetic Super has appointed Nancy Fox as a board director following the departure of the fund's founder, Ross Fisher, who is retiring after over 20 years. Fox will join the board as an employer representative. She has extensive board experience, including ...