SUMMARY: SMSFs awoke to geared property earlier and in bigger numbers than previously realised. The hunger for geared property inside self-managed super funds is far bigger than previously understood. The Tax Office on Monday made a second consecutive massive annual upward revision of official figures regarding how widespread property gearing in super […]
SUMMARY: Cash is dead. And it’s time SMSFs woke up to the real cost of their love affair with the folding stuff. There’s always an exception to the rule. Sir Isaac Newton and his “what goes up must come down” law can occasionally be proved wrong. For example, Australian self-managed super funds and their […]
SUMMARY: SMSFs who were pushing the boundaries on 0% related-party loans face big tax penalties from the ATO. When the Tax Office wants to close a door, they’ve been known to slam it with a noise that can be heard for miles. This sometimes happens even where they themselves opened the door and then left […]
SUMMARY: SMSFs continue to do what they know best – make sure that their own best interests are being looked after. UNDERDOG status is something with which DIY super funds have long been comfortable. Being underestimated has never worried them. Authorities and outsiders often misread them, misunderstand what drives them and mis-judge how they’re going […]
SUMMARY: An appetite for gearing risk is back for investors. Here’s the menu for super investors who are hungry. More than six years after the barn doors were fully opened, gearing for superannuation funds remains divisive. Many have not embraced it and would still like to see it banned again. It’s good that it hasn’t […]
SUMMARY: An appetite for gearing risk is back for investors. Here’s the menu for super investors who are hungry. More than six years after the barn doors were fully opened, gearing for super funds remains divisive. Many have not embraced it and would still like to see it banned again. It’s good that it hasn’t […]
SUMMARY: Positive developments on two fronts in super, with lighter regulation of SMSFs a possibility. It seems like the tide has been running out forever for superannuation investors, including SMSF trustees. In reality, it has been about six years. But recent evidence suggests the tide has turned. And in the last week, SMSF trustees (and […]
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