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SPAA and Macquarie to investigate SMSFs

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2014
... participate," she said. Macquarie banking and financial services group division director, Sarah Penn, said that as the popularity of SMSFs continues to grow, understanding business was essential. "SMSFs are becoming an increasingly large part of many ...

SMSFs still under-invested in global shares

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2014
... the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) reveal that overseas equities account for just 0.4% of the total capital invested in SMSFs. "There are many exceptional global companies that have impressive track records of compounding earnings and dividends at ...

High net worth assets grow to $1.4 trillion

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
... $1 million of investable assets, excluding the family home, business and super, but including self-managed super funds (SMSFs). Regarding the investment habits of HNW investors, 2013 saw a shift away from cash and term deposits towards listed shares ...

Parliament passes more nuanced SMSF penalties

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2014
... been passed giving the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) more varied powers to penalise self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) that fail to comply. Previously the ATO had limited options in dealing with non-compliant SMSF trustees, often having to ...

SPAA calls for reduction in SMSF levy

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
The Australian Taxation Office's (ATOs) annual levy on self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) should be reduced in the May budget, according to the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA). SPAA's senior manager, technical and policy ...

New laws target promoters of early release schemes

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014
... accessing their superannuation before the preservation age, often involving the improper use of self-managed super funds (SMSFs). While the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) (SIS) Act already stipulates when early release of funds is and is not legal ...

OneVue rules out further acquisitions in run up to IPO

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2014
... sector play so we want to be part of all three high growth areas of the superannuation market. We've spent a lot of time on SMSFs and we have member based digital solutions and then we were missing retail superannuation, so we decided to go get that. ...

ATO doing a good job on SMSFs: Cooper

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014
... vigilant". "The big thing that most people don't realise is that in the last little while the ATO who are the regulator of SMSFs has become a lot more vigilant," he told Financial Standard. "So now if you don't lodge your return or they don't like the ...

ASIC: no plans for SMSF balance threshold

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014
... balance of $100,000 you can't advise them as an SMSF," he said. Despite this, Tanzer said that there were inherent risks for SMSFs with sub-$100,000 balances. "We want fact based, research based guidance. Want people to understand that if you are purely ...

Sinodinos rules out LRBA review for SMSFs

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2014
... they do need to be licensed for this." "I want to be very clear, there is no separate review of that underway." Currently SMSFs can use the borrowed money to purchase a single asset, or a collection of identical assets that have the same market value. ...