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ASIC closes in on SMSF advice firms

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012
... companies have raised approximately $4.75 million from more than 200 investors. Royale and Active were offering their SMSF clients' shares in companies based in the US and the British Virgin Islands, when the appropriate disclosure documents had not ...

Macquarie sees managed accounts surge

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2012
... managed accounts in light of continued volatility and regulatory change. "Managed accounts are also popular among SMSF clients and with the SMSF industry continuing to grow it makes sense to expect that managed accounts will increasingly gather interest ...

SMSFs the new retail

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2012
... after the SMSF market its not immediately evident," Francois told Financial Standard. "50 to 60% of our clients are SMSF clients... again we haven't specifically gone out to target them but there has been more retail investors that have contacted us ...

Planners remain wary of switching cash to equities

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2011
... growth assets at good prices," said Jon Reilly, Asset Allocation and Investment Committee. Jordan said that many SMSF clients that were looking to allocate more capital away from cash were falling back on property. "A lot of them are saying, 'we know ...

New tool launched to gear SMSFs into property

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2011
... mortgage on a property by using contributions all inside of super sounded like a pretty attractive proposition for young SMSF clients in the accumulation phase. Multiport offered a series of case studies in which property could work in an SMSF.

Class Super adds actuarial SMSF service

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2011
... administration provider Class Super is using cloud computing to offer automated actuarial certificate data transfers for SMSF clients. Class Super, developed by Class Financial Systems, said it will provide real time access to accountants, administrators ...

SMSF trustees are looking for mentors

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2011
... manager at Colonial First State, told delegates that the funds management industry hadn't yet worked out how to handle SMSF clients.

SMSF trustees pile $69.5m in US property

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2011
... Fund IPO closed on June 10. Dixon Advisory is a member of the Dixon Advisory Group, which services more than 3,900 SMSF clients with a combined superannuation asset base of more than $3.9 billion. The firm said Australian investors and SMSF trustees ...

Planners struggle to sell practices as values fall

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
... from 3.2 in 2009 to 3.0 this year. * Risk clients: from a range of 3.5 to 4.0 in 2010, to 3.0 to 3.5 this year. * SMSF clients of all ages: from 3.3 in 2009 to a range of 2.7 to 3.0 this year. * Corporate super clients: from 3.0 in 2009 to a range of ...

MDAs to expand SMSF footprint

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2011
... to implement a Class Super datafeed that enables a cost effective discretionary SMSF solution to be rolled out to SMSF clients of the intermediary. "IAS is also in discussions with other providers including BGL and IDS Super to expand the IAS SMSF footprint ...