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Excellence rewarded for 2017

The best operators within the industry were once again recognised at the 2017 SMSF Service Providers Awards co-hosted by selfmanagedsuper and research house CoreData.

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Residential Property

Residential property listings drop

The latest SQM Research analysis of the residential property market showed a fall in listings in July by 5.1 per cent and by 9 per cent in year-on-year terms across all capital cities.

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Retirement

Retirees shouldering growing cost of living

Rising costs of living were impacting on Australian retirees, with couples needing to fork out over $60,000 a year for a comfortable retirement, according to new figures from the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA).

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ATO

ATO proposes TBAR time frame options

The ATO has released a position paper requesting industry feedback on two possible time frame scenarios for SMSFs for events-based reporting under its transfer balance account report (TBAR) regime.

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LICs

Magellan floats new global equities LIC

Magellan Asset Management has launched a listed investment company (LIC) offering individuals the chance to invest in a focused portfolio of international equities.

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Investments

Opportunities result from geopolitical risk

Good investment opportunities are arising in global credit markets in the wake of geopolitical risks around the world, a specialist fund manager has said.

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Investments

Ignore short-term reporting season woes

A mid-tier chartered accounting firm has warned investors not to allow negative noise stemming from the latest company reporting season to disrupt their long-term wealth-building strategies.

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Compliance & Regulation

Auditor banned over independence issues

John Evennett, from New South Wales, has been disqualified from being an approved SMSF auditor by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC).

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ATO

ATO clarifies TBAR rules

Kasey Macfarlane

ATO SMSF segment assistant commissioner Kasey Macfarlane has addressed industry confusion over what must be reported under the transfer balance account report (TBAR) regime, in addition to outlining potential risks around the 2018 transition date for SMSFs.

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Compliance & Regulation

TRIS conversion could cause cap problems

SMSF trustees need to be cautious that the new treatment of transition-to-retirement income streams (TRIS) does not lead to a breach of the transfer balance cap (TBC) introduced on 1 July, a senior SMSF technical practitioner has said.

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