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SMSF borrowing under control, ATO figures suggest

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2014
... fuelling a house price bubble are unfounded. Graeme Colley, director of technical and professional services at the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA), said there was no evidence that SMSF use of LRBAs was "exponential or irresponsible". ...

SPAA defends status quo on SMSF regulation

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2013
The self-managed superannuation super (SMSF) sector is not being poorly regulated, according to SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) chief executive Andrea Slattery. Slattery's comments came in response to a recent survey in which around ...

75,000 SMSFs non-compliant: ATO

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
... pool is 500,000 funds," Forsyth said. "We treat seriously anything that involves the misuse of the fund." The SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA)'s director of technical and professional standards Graeme Colley said that most compliance ...

Abbott sticks to his promise on SMSF regulation

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013
... provisions within two years, so we are happy to wait and see what happens," Forsyth told Financial Standard. The SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) director of Technical and Professional Standards Graeme Colley said that the role that ...

Super likely to fall under Treasury

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2013
... security purse and a population of Australians better enabled to take control of their financial future." The SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) assumed that Sinodinos will be responsible for superannuation in his role as Assistant Treasurer ...

Industry agrees: SMSFs are not for everyone

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2013
... establishing and advising self-managed superannuation funds (SMSF). "The announcement by ASIC today is consistent with SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) objective," SPAA chief executive Andrea Slattery said. "It's important that investors ...

Could ASIC become the SMSF regulator?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
... operators. ASIC, she said, has the capability to "keep an eye on a much wider spread." However, Jordan George of the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA), said he did not "see any likelihood" that the regulation of SMSFs would shift from ...

Telstra Super lures members with SMSF lookalike

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
... 3.4% for three months and 3.5% for six months. Jordan George, technical development and policy manager at the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA), said he did not think offering easier access to term deposits would be enough to dissuade ...

Rate cut impacts SMSFs, retirees

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2013
... which they can use to increase their mortgage payments or to look for different places to invest. In any case, SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) chief executive Andrea Slattery stressed the importance of seeking advice. "With the adequate ...

ASFA calls for clarity on Labor's super law freeze

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2013
... rules will not be subject to constant change and annual budget cycles." Andrea Slattery, chief executive of the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA), said, "We welcome the initiative. SPAA has been advocating for many years for the government ...