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ASIC warns super trustees

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2015
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has warned superannuation trustees about the promotion of member direct or self-managed investment options. ASIC commissioner Peter Kell said that occasionally the promotion of self-managed ...

Vanguard to launch international fixed income ETFs

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2015
... Australian investment strategies, which typically represent around 16%, and on average don't appear at all in self-managed super fund portfolios. He added that bonds (and, consequently, bond ETFs) can provide protection against downside equity risk ...

BTFG adds managed funds to platform

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
... of previous releases, including managed portfolios, cash and term deposits." BTFG also plans to introduce a self-managed super fund (SMSF) solution and direct equities to allow individuals to trade on the ASX. "This will provide advisers and their clients ...

PROFILE: Magellan chief investment officer Hamish Douglass

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
... Magellan Global Equities Fund, Douglass and his team are making a credible bid for the notoriously tough to crack self-managed super fund market. "We realised there was a large market that was either advised by stockbrokers, or didn't use an adviser ...

New SMSFs slowing as boomers retire

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
Net establishments of new self-managed super funds have steadily declined since mid-2014, according to ATO and APRA data. Specifically, net establishments have fallen by 24% to 22,822 in the 12 months to June 2015. While this can be partly attributed ...

Adviser linked to Spring FG banned for document forgery

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
... an authorised representative of Spring Financial Group between May 2011 and May 2012. Nicholas Hunter was a self-managed super fund (SMSF) adviser who was selling property on behalf of MOGS, a Queensland property development company. The company is now ...

Scrapping LISC was shameful and retrograde: Bowen

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2015
... also mentioned the possibility of setting up joint superannuation accounts, an option currently available for self-managed super fund (SMSF) trustees.

Accountants nearing SMSF exemption deadline

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
... Australian financial services licence if they want to continue providing advice on establishing and winding up self-managed super funds after 1 July 2016. According to SMSF Association head of education services Liz Ward, some accountants are unaware ...

PROFILE: AvSuper chief executive Michelle Wade

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
The head of a large Australian superannuation fund once complained that a young employee at AAS didn't know anything about the super industry. Little did they know almost a decade later that same employee would be chief executive at AvSuper. Darren ...

BMR debuts 15-minute SMSF

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
BMR Corporate solutions has launched its online "15-minute self-managed super fund" service, allowing rapid SMSF establishment. At the launch of the service in Sydney, BMR senior consultant Mark Ratcliff noted that currently the preparation of super ...