SMSF members certainly haven’t been immune to the impacts of COVID-19, with recent ATO statistics (August 2020) suggesting approximately 35,000 applications by members for the early release of super have been processed across nearly 19,000 funds, totalling nearly $341 million. Interestingly, within the first tranche, the ATO said that around 22,000 approved applications were made…
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In conjunction with SMSF Adviser, CEO of Smarter SMSF – Aaron Dunn co-hosts the new fortnightly SMSF Adviser Show with editor, Miranda Brownlee to take a look at what is making news and driving discussion across the SMSF sector. Episode #1 – Auditor Independence In this episode, Aaron and Miranda are joined by ATO…
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We are lucky to have such an amazing line up of expert speakers for this year’s SMSF Virtual Day 2020 event, hosted by Smarter SMSF on Thursday, 12 November 2020. In the next of our ‘meet the speaker’ sessions, Aaron Dunn is joined by Rebecca Oakes, Technical Manager at Act2 Solutions to discuss details of…
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The topic of SMSF investment strategies remains at the forefront of both trustees and practitioners – we know this because approx. 23% of all documents ordered this year on the Smarter SMSF platform have been investment strategies, addressing key deficiencies in fund documents that need to satisfy an increased focus by auditors acting as the…
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The SMSF Virtual Day 2020 is the fifth version of our SMSF technical day and is shaping up to be our most exciting one yet. Whilst we ordinarily enjoy the opportunity to travel and conduct these event face-to-face around Australia, the entire team at Smarter SMSF is putting together a virtual event that will ensure…
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