The SMSF sector is at a junction again, and that’s why the Future of SMSF is back! In 2014 and 2018, our Future of SMSF research gave practitioners something the sector rarely gets: hard evidence on how SMSF practices actually run. The 2018 findings were downloaded more than 1,000 times, presented to more than 3,500…
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Two practitioners get the same SMSF question on the same afternoon. One works in a large firm. She walks down the corridor, asks the technical partner, and has an answer before her coffee goes cold. The other is a sole practitioner in a regional town. There’s no corridor. Every second opinion is a paid one,…
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Ask any SMSF partner where their week goes and you’ll rarely hear “answering technical questions”. Yet that’s exactly where a surprising amount of it disappears. Not because the questions are hard. Most aren’t — not for someone with 15 or 20 years in the sector. The time goes on everything around the answer. Stopping what…
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In SMSF, a confident wrong answer is worse than no answer Most SMSF practitioners I speak with are already using AI. Some openly. Many quietly. That isn’t the problem. The problem is what happens when it’s wrong, and sounds right. Picture this. A junior accountant gets a question late in the day about a client’s…
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We’re thrilled to share that Smarter SMSF has been named Training & Education Provider of the Year at the SMSF Awards 2026, presented on Friday, 16 October at the Sofitel Wentworth in Sydney. This one is super special. It isn’t just recognition of what we’ve built. It belongs to every member, every attendee, and everyone…
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