The SMSF Association has appointed Craig Jameson as its corporate development general manager, with the professional body’s expansion into the trustee market an important aspect of his new job.

Adviser platform provider Hub24 is specifically targeting SMSFs for its international managed portfolio offering as a way to address the asset imbalance in their portfolios.

GPS Wealth has significantly enhanced its authorised representative base over the past year, with 60 accounting practices signing on with the independent licensee prior to the 30 June 2016 scrapping of the accountants’ exemption.

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has sent a final warning to 185 approved SMSF auditors that their registration will be cancelled if their outstanding annual statements are not lodged with fees paid by 22 July.

What is super for? It seems strange to be addressing this question a quarter of a century after our current superannuation system was introduced. But, as David Murray pointed out in his Financial System Inquiry (FSI) report, nowhere is the purpose of superannuation written down in legislation. It should be because there needs to be […]

Transferring super out of the United Kingdom back to Australia might be a viable option for SMSFs in light of the historic Brexit vote in favour of Britain withdrawing from the European Union and the proposed lifetime non-concessional contribution (NCC) limit, according to a technical expert.

Financial services company Spring FG today announced it had opened its mysuper247 SMSF platform for pre-registration, ahead of its full operational launch next month.