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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Advisers warned: take sequencing risk seriously

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2013
... Michael E. Drew, Professor of Finance at Griffith University and partner at Drew, Walk & Co. Speaking at the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) State Technical Conference, Professor Drew said that in order to avoid the pitfalls of sequencing ...

Breaking Australia's love affair with the lump sum

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2013
... of cap being imposed: the ever-growing self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) sector. Graeme Colley of the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) said that while SMSFs tend to move towards income stream products, they would prefer it to ...

Generation Y busts SMSF age myth

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2013
... plan to set up - self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs), according to a new study by Macquarie Bank and the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA). The study found that 8.1% of Australia's adult population intend to set up an SMSF in ...

Self-education cap "short sighted": SPAA

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2013
The SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) has criticised the Government's proposal to cap tax deductions for professional self-education at $2000. SPAA said that the decision is "short-sighted and self-defeating" and said that a self-managed ...

SMSF 'Boost Camp' 2013 gets underway July 23

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013
... Tuesday 23 July, at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre in Darling Harbour. The event, organised by the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA), will then travel to Brisbane, Melbourne, and Adelaide, with the final day taking place ...

ECT relief should apply to non-concessional contributions: SPAA

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2013
... the excess contributions tax (ECT) should be extended to include non-concessional contributions, according to SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) chief executive Andrea Slattery. Amendments to the Fairer Taxation of Excess Concessional ...