BGL and Lime Actuarial have partnered to enable SMSF administrators and accountants to use BGL Simple Fund 360 to access actuarial certificates.

SMSF veteran David Busoli has re-entered the self-managed space after acquiring boutique SMSF administrator SMSF Alliance to provide strategic administration.

Robo-advice provider Six Park has announced two new strategic partnerships with Heffron and Class as part of its wider plans for 2018.

The SMSF Academy is rebranding as Smarter SMSF in a bid to better reflect its expanded service offering, including its SMSF documents offering.

The federal government has implemented various measures in the past two years to ensure public confidence in the banking and financial services industry, but a royal commission was ultimately unavoidable, according to Assistant Treasurer Michael Sukkar.

Legal document provider Topdocs has announced an end-to-end integration with Xero Practice Manager (XPM) to enable data sharing between the two platforms.

The SMSF Association will make submissions to the banking royal commission if requested despite the sector’s exclusion from the inquiry’s terms of reference.

Australian Securities Exchange-traded corporate bond investment provider XTB has reported considerable outperformance for its fixed-rate portfolios when compared against the credit index and comparative bond exchange-traded fund (ETF) market in 2017.