Articles by Malavika Santhebennur

ASIC

ASIC bans SMSF adviser, suspends AFSL

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has banned a Queensland SMSF financial adviser for four years and suspended his Australian financial services licence (AFSL) for failing to act in his clients’ best interests.

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Accounting, Education, Financial Planning

FASEA under fire for not providing course notes

Accounting services provider AccountantsIQ has admonished the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority (FASEA) over its intention not to provide preparation materials for the financial adviser examination, arguing this defies the purpose of the exam.

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Regulation, Superannuation

Treasury releases updated SG draft

Treasury today released an exposure draft of the updated Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Regulations 2018 as the 1993 iteration is scheduled to sunset on 1 October 2018.

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Administration, Compliance

Accountants, trustees doubling up on TBAR

Instances of transfer balance account report (TBAR) duplication by SMSF trustees and their accountants are occurring, indicating a lack of communication between the two parties, according to Class.

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Education

Calls for FASEA to recognise prior learning

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The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority’s (FASEA) proposed education standards fail to outline how prior learning will be recognised for existing advisers as they transition to the new requirements, according to an industry body.

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Investments

SMSFs look for yield in mortgage loans

Specialist commercial property lender Thinktank is seeing a nascent market among SMSF trustees for mortgage loans through its two investment trusts.

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Compliance, Management

Parallels exist between SMSF, company residency

The ATO will consider the central management and control of an SMSF to be occurring in Australia if all high-level decisions are made in Australia regardless of where the fund’s directors live, according to a lawyer.

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Appointments

Olivia Long joins advisory firm as MD

Former SuperGuardian and Xpress Super chief executive and director Olivia Long has been appointed as strategy and operations managing director of national financial services and advisory firm Prime Financial Group’s wealth management and super division.

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Education, Financial Planning, Regulation

Enforce bridging course if advisers fail exam

Financial advisers and accountants should only be compelled to do bridging courses under the new education reforms if they fail the national financial adviser examination proposed by the standards board, according to an academic.

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ETFs, Investments

SMSFs only gaining access to small pool of ETFs

SMSF investors can only get their hands on about 10 per cent of the exchange-traded funds (ETF) available globally, with large gaps in sector and thematic exposures, according to ETF Securities.

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