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July 1 will end the "amateur" SMSF era

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2016
... accountants still haven't applied for their Australian financial services licence, which will make continuing to provide SMSF advice after July 1 increasingly difficult. Coupled with the higher entry requirements for SMSF auditors and higher audit fees ...

Managed fund allocations jump

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2016
... trustees rose by 5.10% to 28.19%, compared to the March quarter of 2015. This asset class is now the biggest for OneVue SMSF advice investors and also posted the largest rise over the period. By comparison, the biggest drop was posted by listed shares ...

ASIC bans SMSF adviser

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2015
ASIC has permanently banned a former self-managed superannuation fund adviser. Marion Joan Pearson, who provided SMSF advice to clients from November 2007 to October 2013, now resides in New Zealand. She is the sole director of and shareholder in Colisa ...

Accountants nearing SMSF exemption deadline

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
... working on an accountant licensing solution to provide a professional pathway for accountants to continue to provide SMSF advice. Bstar chief executive Grant Bloxham also said in February that accounting practices that will be the most successful "are ...

AMP names new Charter and ipac managing director

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015
... advice and banking, Rob Caprioli. Tim Mitchell-Adams will be responsible for leading the Charter, ipac, Jigsaw and SMSF Advice businesses. Mitchell-Adams previously led AMP's national sales team responsible for servicing the group's advice licensees ...

Minimum $200k SMSF balance "completely incorrect"

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2015
... counsel on superannuation Michael Hallinan said ASIC's comments - included in the regulator's new guidance papers on SMSF advice - were "completely incorrect, arbitrary and deeply ill-informed." "An SMSF with a starting balance of $200,000 or below is ...

ASIC seeks more bans in SMSF advice crackdown

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
ASIC is seeking banning orders ranging from 7.5 years to permanent for individuals participating in providing unlicensed advice to SMSF investors. The regulator has provided submissions to the Federal Court, specifically mentioning property developer ...

SMSFs attract too much criticism

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2015
... also admitted that a recent Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) investigation into the quality of SMSF advice had unearthed too many problems. "We still have some way to go before everyone in the country has access to competent SMSF ...

Accountants threatened by regulation, falling profits, succession

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2015
... uncertainties about their advice facilities, especially given the looming removal of the AFSL "accountant's exemption" for SMSF advice in July 2016. "The accounting practices which are most successful are those that are building leveraged advice services ...

St George head of advice joins Anne Street

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2015
... increasing client satisfaction," said chief executive Michael Adamson. Since ASIC raised concerns about the group's SMSF advice back in September 2013, Anne Street Partners has improved its risk profiling tool and advice template documentation, introduced ...