Emphasising the benefits of advice as a return on investment (ROI) to clients rather than focusing only on the cost was a more effective way to overcome any pushback, a specialist business has said.

Arrangements to offshore SMSF administration and compliance in countries with cheap labour must not skimp on comprehensive training and education in relation to staff, particularly accountants.

Communicating with younger people setting up SMSFs has been flagged as the next challenge for the industry, as this generation has significantly different requirements for how they use and receive advice.

Praemium has built new software functionality into its V-Wrap non-custodial portfolio administration system as a value-add to SMSFs and holds high expectations for strong take-up.

SMSF investors were showing continued interest and support in listed investment companies (LIC) as the structure became more popular, according to one of the largest LICs in Australia.

A majority of financial planners favoured separately managed accounts (SMA) for their SMSF clients over direct equities and managed funds, according to a new white paper by private wealth management firm JBWere.

Advisers preferred to use life interest trusts over traditional life estate structures as they were free of several complexities.

BMR Corporate Solutions has launched an online document system that cuts SMSF registration time down to 15 minutes.

Accountable Financial Group (AFG) has signed OneVue as its digital platform provider, which will help deliver investment and superannuation product solutions tailored to its scalable advice solutions for accountants in practice.