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Advisers warned: take sequencing risk seriously

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2013
... 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 risk, advisers need to ...

Breaking Australia's love affair with the lump sum

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2013
... 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 be a voluntary move rather ...

No more SMSF tax loopholes for excess concessional contributions

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2013
... highest rate of tax on their income, according to AMP SMSF's head of policy and technical Peter Burgess. Speaking at the SPAA State Technical Conference in Sydney on Tuesday, to an audience predominantly comprised of financial advisers, Burgess said ...

SMSFs lose majority of cases against ATO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2013
... cases against the Australian Tax Office, according to David Hughes, a partner at law firm Small Myers Hughes. Speaking at the SPAA State Technical Conference in Sydney yesterday, Hughes said that of the 32 cases he looked at - largely involving excess ...

Generation Y busts SMSF age myth

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2013
... 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 the next three years. Of that ...

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 ...

Latest Financial Standard issue available on the iPad app

STAFF WRITERS  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2013
... for the massive increase in their regulatory reporting, showcase the upcoming 2013 social media SMILEY awards and profile SPAA's chief executive Andrea Slattery. You can read these articles on your iPad by downloading Financial Standard iPadA(C) app ...

SMSF 'Boost Camp' 2013 gets underway July 23

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013
Sydney will host the first day of the 2013 SPAA State Technical 'Boost Camp' Series on Tuesday 23 July, at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre in Darling Harbour. The event, organised by the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) ...

ECT relief should apply to non-concessional contributions: SPAA

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2013
... 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 Contributions legislation passed ...

Super tax concession policy 'fatally flawed': SPAA

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2013
The SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) chief executive Andrea Slattery has said current methodology used to measure superannuation tax concessions is "fatally flawed", as it does not take the entire retirement system into account. She ...