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Low-cost super awash with inflows

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
... client themselves. This also relates to the wider trend of investors "doing it for themselves" via self-managed super funds (SMSFs). Research firm Lonsec recently found significant growth in the number of investments catering to direct investors during ...

ASIC seeks more bans in SMSF advice crackdown

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
... Furthermore, the participants in this scheme (including others also named by ASIC), provided investors advice about establishing SMSFs and acquiring (and disposing of) superannuation assets without holding an Australian Financial Services Licence. ASIC's ...

XTB launch opens corporate bonds to retail

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
... and retail investors; instead of the $100 billion one we currently have. "Until now individual investors, including many SMSFs, have been heavily reliant on term deposits for predicable, stable returns. But with interest rates at historical lows - and ...

FEATURE: Australia's other love affair

FINANCIAL STANDARD  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... discussion around property with some experts saying Australia is going through a housing bubble fuelled by low interest rates and SMSFs' ability to borrow. Financial Standard analyses investors' current love affair with property and looks at other ways ...

CML launches $25m corporate bond issue

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
... services company CML group has launched a $25 million unrated bond issue targeting private investors, self-managed super funds (SMSFs) and advisers. The corporate bond issue is arranged by FIIG Securities and has a minimum initial investment of $50,000. ...

Gearing for SMSFs won't be significant: Colley

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... investment pattern of self-managed fund trustees. "We've only just seen the assistant treasurer with something about gearing in SMSFs and what that will be I don't really know," Colley said. "It seems there might be a rule about restricting the LRBA ...

SMSF trustees warned SuperStream deadline looms

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2015
The deadline for self-managed super funds (SMSFs) to be compliant with the SuperStream data standards is fast approaching, and trustees who have not done so need to prepare now, the SMSF Association has warned. SMSF Association chief executive and managing ...

ASIC takes SMSF business to court

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
... superannuationwarehouse.com.au and smsfwarehoue.com.au. ASIC says SWA's advertising is misleading and deceptive as it promotes the 'free' set up of SMSFs on the websites without disclosing that conditions and charges were associated with the free setup ...

NGS Super tool can help members move to SMSF

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
... fund (SMSF). The SMSF Profiler was developed as a response to the "significant volume of information in the marketplace on SMSFs which is often biased, conflicted or just plain scaremongering," NGS Super chief executive Anthony Rodwell-Ball said. "With ...

Retirement income sector keeps pace with population changes

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... trillion in the same period. Further, the report indicates that the largest part of retirement income FUM will be held in SMSFs (48%), followed by retail allocated pensions (38%), industry funds (12%) and annuities (2%). Investment Trends' December 2014 ...