Articles by Darin Tyson-Chan

Accounting, Financial Planning

Legs and regs challenge worsens

regulation SMSF accountants

Legislation and regulations regarding the provision of financial advice are proving to be an increasing challenge for accountants servicing SMSFs.

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Financial Planning, Retirement

RI covenant raises advice issue

SMSFs retirement advice

The advice SMSFs will need for retirement income covenant compliance could be problematic given the unlicensed status of many sector advisers.

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Compliance

Trustees lagging on new duty

trustees financial interest duty

Trustees seem to have been slow in adopting measures to document how they are considering complying with the best financial interest duty.

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Auditing

Audit fee threshold rejected again

audit fees threshold

The proposal to introduce a hard limit on audit fees originating from one referral source has been opposed by the SMSF Association.

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Financial Planning

Reduction in planner numbers an opportunity

reduction financial advisers

A number of self-licensed practitioners are viewing the reduction in adviser numbers across the industry as a business growth opportunity.

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Superannuation

SuperStream omits cashless rollovers

SuperStream rollovers

Unlike cash superannuation rollovers, those involving in specie asset transfers do not have to be executed via the SuperStream system for SMSFs.

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NALI/NALE

Pro bono work can pass NALE rules

pro bono NALE rules

The provision of pro bono services to an SMSF is not automatically outlawed by the NALE rules as defined by the ATO in LCG 2012/2.

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ETFs

ETF manager achieves notable milestone

ETF BetaShares

ETF provider BetaShares has exceeded $20 billion in assets under management in just over 10 years since being established in the market.

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Auditing, Compliance

ASQC 1 manual has crucial independence role

ASQC 1 manual compliance

Making sure a particular manual is in place will enhance the documented proof auditors are complying with the amended independence standards.

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Markets

Planning for market correction required

market correction

SMSF investors have been advised to revisit their equities holdings in anticipation of a market correction forecast to occur in the short term.

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