The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) has revealed it will dedicate more time to the SMSF space, namely increasing its education efforts for trustees about alternatives.

Saxo Capital Markets and OpenMarkets have announced a strategic alliance to deliver a combined holder identification number (HIN) and international equities fintech trading solution, which will address a need from SMSFs looking for global investment diversification.

There have been a number of developments in recent years both in Australia and in the United Kingdom that have reduced the availability and attractiveness of UK pension transfers.

Financial collaboration platform myprosperity has announced it has completed its integration with BGL’s Simple Fund 360 cloud SMSF solution, enabling a holistic view of a client’s super and non-super assets.

Advised SMSFs outstripped self-directed SMSFs over the 12 months to June 2016, according to the latest industry research.

A South Melbourne man has been convicted and fined $6000 in the Melbourne Magistrates Court after pleading guilty to operating an unlicensed financial services business promoting the early release of retirement savings benefits through SMSFs.

Annual investor research performed by AMP has identified generating income and managing the volatility of equity markets as two significant concerns for SMSF trustees.

Online peer-to-peer (P2P) lending firm LendEx has revealed it has not seen evidence of SMSFs using aggressive limited recourse borrowing arrangements (LRBA) on the platform as inquiries for loan requests increase.

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