Opinions

Super needs to be depoliticised

April 30, 2013

The ultimate goal of all participants in the superannuation system should be to depoliticise it. Super is too important to be a political football, tossed about whenever political expediency demands it.

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IPA

Renewed focus on quality required

April 10, 2013

Reece Agland

Audit quality is the crucible by which SMSF auditors will be judged under the new Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)-based regulatory system. SMSF auditors are warned that ASIC will take a much stronger stand in relation to audit quality and many auditors will need to improve their policies and procedures to avoid the ire of the corporate regulator.

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SISFA

A year of challenges ahead

March 15, 2013

Darren Kingdon

The Small Independent Superannuation Funds Association (SISFA) believes 2013 will deliver more shocks to the SMSF sector as governments, competitors and regulators try to cope with the fastest-growing sector in what is a rapidly maturing financial services industry still reeling from the global financial crisis.

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ASMA

A much needed voice for members

March 14, 2013

Anna Carrabs

SMSF members have a strong desire for their voice to be heard. This could be as SMSF shareholders at an annual general meeting or through writing letters to editors of financial publications or simply turning up to an industry conference to directly question politicians from both sides of the fence

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SMSFA

Reward for embracing change

March 13, 2013

Andrea Slattery

Remember the 1982 movie The Year of Living Dangerously starring a young Mel Gibson and directed by Peter Weir? The story follows young Australian reporter Guy Hamilton, who arrives fresh in Indonesia on the eve of the 1965 communist party coup and who has to navigate his way through the political turmoil of that period.

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