Articles by Krystine Lumanta

Business News

SuperConcepts appoints new CTO

SuperConcepts today announced Brad Ackermann will replace its outgoing chief technology officer (CTO) and originator of SuperMate, Kurt Groeneveld.

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Investments, Retirement

Fee impact too significant to ignore

Australia’s investment industry needs to improve its fee transparency as excessive fees, hidden fees and accumulated costs are severely eroding investors’ savings, a digital wealth provider has warned.

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Administration, Compliance

ECPI compliance risk reduced on SMSF software

The latest feature added to SuperMate will allow actuarial certificates to be validated automatically when SMSFs claim exempt current pension income (ECPI), reducing time, costs and exposure to compliance risks.

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Financial Planning

Henderson found to have breached FPA code

The Financial Planning Association of Australia’s (FPA) independent disciplinary body, the Conduct Review Commission (CRC), has found former financial services executive Sam Henderson breached the FPA’s Code of Professional Practice.

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ATO, Superannuation

ATO flags unavailability of super services

The tax office has advised that some of its superannuation services are temporarily unavailable while it implements changes.

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Investments

Certainty, convenience key to winning SMSFs

As the SMSF market reaches maturation phase, service providers in the space must recognise two major underlying needs trustees have in order to grow and sustain business, a research executive has said.

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ASIC, Education

ASIC delays reporting dates for adviser reforms

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) today released a new legislative instrument relating to the professional standards reforms for financial advisers.

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ATO, Compliance, Strategy

ATO flags multiple SMSFs issue

The ATO has revealed it is examining the use of multiple SMSFs to manipulate tax outcomes as a new emerging matter.

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Education, Property

New property course unveiled

Mentor Education Group has launched a real estate course following a growing number of calls for such a service from accountants, financial planners and brokers as more professional advisory practices position themselves as one-stop-shop service providers.

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Infrastructure, Investments

Growing SMSF demand for unlisted infrastructure

SMSFs are showing a strong appetite for the unlisted infrastructure, now that access to this asset class has opened up, according to Infrastructure Partners Investment Fund (IPIF) Management.

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