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Accounting, Financial Planning

Accountants well qualified to give advice

accountants SMSF advice

Qualified accountants should be able to provide limited SMSF advice having already met the standards needed to do so.

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Property, Retirement

Reverse mortgage milestone passed

Pension Boost reverse mortgage

A specialist firm that helps pensioners access reverse mortgages has passed a milestone in approvals from a scheme run by the government.

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Financial Planning, Regulation

Advice delivers trustee opportunities

specialist financial advice SMSF

Specialist financial advice is providing trustees with better regulatory knowledge that can lead to a material benefit for their SMSF.

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Auditing

Workaround possible for limited valuation data

SMSF property valuation

SMSF trustees who cannot find comparable sales data for use in a property valuation can rely on other forms of information if they have sufficient evidence.

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Financial Planning

Industry push for advice regime change

Industry bodies advice review

A group of 12 industry bodies has recommended the Quality of Advice Review focus on making advice easier to deliver by enabling the professionalism of practitioners

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Financial Planning

Perception tarnishing SMSF advice

SMSF financial advice

Poor industry perception is preventing younger SMSF trustees from seeking financial advice to assist them in the running of their own super fund.

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Regulation

DDO regime should include carve-out

SMSFs DDO

SMSFs should be exempt from design and distribution obligations as they are not products, but personalised structures used by members to access products.

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ASIC

Squirrel penalised for false investment claims

Squirrel SMSF investment

Squirrel Superannuation Services has been ordered to pay a penalty after ASIC found it falsely marketed investment returns for residential property held via SMSFs.

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Investments

Pooled investments favoured

SMSF pooled investments

SMSFs are using pooled structures for around one-third of their investments, according to an analysis of underlying funds from an administration provider.

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ATO, Compliance

ATO adds 170 to disqualified trustee register

ATO disqualified trustee register

The ATO has updated and published its disqualified trustee register to include individuals disqualified before 31 March.

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