The Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s change of heart to allow SMSF members to qualify as wholesale investors comes with both opportunities and dangers.

The 2014 SMSF awards co-hosted by CoreData and selfmanagedsuper saw Cavendish Superannuation emerge as the best administration provider for advisers.

Our solutions have evolved and been enhanced to integrate with our intermediary clients’ businesses, helping them to improve efficiency and to better service their clients.

The second year of accolades for the best-of-the-best service providers to SMSFs has once again revealed the frontrunners in the industry. Krystine Lumanta and Elizabeth Somerville report on the winners as nominated by SMSF-servicing advisers and accountants.

One of our focuses this year was improving the level of visibility that the adviser and trustee have. Other areas we’re expanding into are things like property valuations, which we’ve made easier to do, as well as streamlining the corporate actions processing

FIIG Securities knows where its strengths lie, having worked in the fixed income space since the company’s inception in 1998, and it’s this knowledge that is the cornerstone of its success.

Improving the knowledge and understanding of SMSF lending has been fundamental to Westpac’s strategy over the past 12 months, particularly the suitability and processes for limited recourse borrowing arrangements.

Demand for insurance has taken a hit this year, but despite the challenge, TAL has been recognised as the winner in the insurance category for the second year in a row.

Definitely [over the past 12 months] the exposure in the portfolio has been tilted towards large multinational technology companies, including eBay, Google, Oracle and Microsoft.