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Planners need discretion on SMSF cost advice: SPAA

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2013

75,000 SMSFs non-compliant: ATO

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
... 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 breaches happen when trustees ...

Abbott sticks to his promise on SMSF regulation

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013
... 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 SMSFs are playing in the current ...

Super likely to fall under Treasury

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2013
... 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 and welcomed the decision. ...

Industry agrees: SMSFs are not for everyone

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2013
... 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 can choose how to invest their retirement ...

Could ASIC become the SMSF regulator?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
... 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 the ATO to ASIC. While he said SPAA ...

Telstra Super lures members with SMSF lookalike

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
... 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 members from setting up SMSFs. He ...

Accountants ready to enter SMSF space, despite costs

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 19 AUG 2013

Rate cut impacts SMSFs, retirees

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2013
... 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 advice, people will have ...

ASFA calls for clarity on Labor's super law freeze

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2013
... 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 to take a long-term approach ...