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Rainmaker Group appoints Professional Standards Officer

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 29 APR 2013
... provision of technical content on superannuation and financial planning matters, including in self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs), personal and corporate income tax issues, credit, tax structures, estate planning, aged care, social security and ...

Justsuper to move SMSFs to BGL cloud solution

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 29 APR 2013
Justsuper, a full service administrator for self-managed super funds (SMSF), will move the 1,500 SMSFs currently administered on BGL's Simple Fund Desktop solution to the Simple Fund 360, BGL's cloud solution. Simple Fund 360 will be released to clients ...

MFAA to train advisers on direct property for SMSF

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013
... direct property investments may offer self- managed super funds (SMSF). The MFAA estimated that direct property investment by SMSFs makes up more than 10% of investments ( or $50 billion) of the 500,000 SMSF in Australia. The training involves two different ...

HOSTPLUS awards custody tender to Citi, gets MySuper licence

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2013
... along side of us," he said. "In the next 12-18 months we plan to restructure HOSTPLUS into a PST to provide services for SMSFs. The custodian will play a pivotal part in this," Sicilia said. This is Citi's first independently acquired super fund client ...

Industry under-prepared for SuperStream: Bravura

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 APR 2013
... Advice (FoFA) and MySuper, the need to retain clients, stemming the loss of business to self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs). "The recent volume of super reforms has led to funds and administrators implementing seemingly stop-gap solutions to meet ...

One third of SMSF advice is poor: ASIC

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2013
... trustees and potential trustees has found that while most advice quality is adequate, there is a trend towards recommending SMSFs as the default solution. The investigation reflects how, despite SMSFs not being prudentially regulated, consumer and disclosure ...

BGL to provide automated property data for SMSFs

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2013
... superannuation and corporate software solutions. Its Simple Fund software is used to administer over 75% of Australia's 490,000 SMSFs with assets of more than $350 billion.

Sherry joins calls to watch SMSF property spruikers

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013
... about the high fee-to-assets ratio being paid by SMSF members with relatively small balances. "Data shows us that 20% of SMSFs have less that $200,000 in assets under management - fees for those members range from anywhere between 2.8% and 8%. That's ...

Coalition vow to leave SMSFs alone

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013
... tightening of SMSF regulation," he said. He added that he was happy with the view expressed in the Cooper Review which found that SMSFs were appropriately regulated. "SMSFs are meeting a particular demand from the market and we're totally relaxed about ...

All APRA funds to offer SMSF-style choice

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013
... he said. "For some, the decision to offer the choice is a defense against leakage to self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs), but for others it is simply more cost-effective. Almost all APRA funds are looking at adding this menu option and I expect ...