An improvement in the fundamentals of listed Australian companies has led to dividends climbing back towards more normal levels, and improved the appeal of income strateg...
The Self Managed Super Fund Professionals’ Association (SPAA) has welcomed further changes to the self-managed super fund (SMSF) registration process, which will enable m...
Changes to SMSF regulations mean businesses can transfer their business real property into a SMSF and attract only $50 in stamp duty....
Platform providers Praemium is targeting a 10 per cent share of the Australian SMSF market in the next three years from its current level of 4 per cent of SMSFs administe...
An ATO crackdown on SMSFs that have not yet lodged a 2009-10 tax return is inconsistent with the office's own guidelines for non-compliance, according to SISFA....
Accountancy firm Chan & Naylor has called for an extension to the four-member limit on SMSFs, which it says disadvantages families with more than four members....
Cooper Review recommendations that assets being transferred into a SMSF must be sold first then re-bought by the SMSF unless no market for the assets exists are unfair an...
SMSF contributions almost doubled in the second quarter of 2010 to an average of $14,700 per fund, up from $7,500 in the first quarter, while the spread of allocations wi...
Fund trustees told they can modify member behaviour to reduce defections to SMSFs....
The SPAA has supported the Government's decision to reject the Cooper Review recommendations that art and collectibles should be banned from SMSFs....
An analysis of the Cooper Review recommendations has pointed to the number of panel members who have SMSFs....
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia has suggested Centrelink could play an independent role in assessing financial hardship cases for SMSFs....
From my perspective, 40- 50% of people are likely going to be deeply unhappy about how long they actually live. ...
Super director remuneration ...
No doubt true, but most of it is still because over 45’s have been upgrading their houses with 30 year mortgages. Money ...