The former principal of Sherwin Financial Planners and chairman of Wickham Securities, Bradley Thomas Sherwin, was yesterday sentenced to a total of 10 years’ imprisonment on 25 charges concerning the misuse of SMSF assets.

Accounting and professional services giant KPMG has entered into an agreement to use cloud-based SMSF administration software Class Super.

Sydney-based investment management firm KSI Investments has launched what it claims is the first landbanking fund aimed at SMSF members.

BT Financial Group (BTFG) today announced funds under administration (FUA) on its BT Panorama platform rose by 147 per cent from $2.7 billion to $6.7 billion in the 12 months to September 2017.

A recent New South Wales Supreme Court decision has established a new course of action for SMSFs with a corporate trustee that has been deregistered.

A Sydney woman has pleaded guilty in the New South Wales District Court to two charges of dishonestly obtaining client funds and one charge of dealing with client funds from the proceeds of crime.

AMP’s results for the third quarter of 2017 have revealed an increase in the number of SMSFs serviced by wealth management arm SuperConcepts.

Class last week announced Simpler BAS functionality was now supported in both Class Super and Class Portfolio.