The holding of collectable and personal-use assets inside an SMSF has dropped away significantly due to strict restrictions about insuring the items.

Maximising capital growth has become more important than ever before to SMSF trustees, the latest sector research has shown.

SMSFs with derivatives that give rise to a charge over the fund’s assets have to fulfil the additional compliance requirement of having a derivatives risk statement in place, an SMSF legal expert says.

Investors with money locked in frozen managed funds will be able to access up to $100,000 under new ASIC relief measures.

Challenger has expanded its annuity range with the release of a guaranteed floating-rate lifetime annuity linked to the Reserve Bank of Australia cash rate.

SMSF trustees in the main have left the investment mix of portfolios untouched in the wake of the market disruption resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, the latest sector research has shown.