• Trio more troubling than Storm, Westpoint

    The collapse of fund manager Trio Capital (Trio) poses more issues than those raised by the failure of financial services groups Storm Financial (Storm) and Westpoint, a parliamentary committee inquiry report has said.

  • SPAA’s CEO joins Ladder board to help combat youth homelessness

    Andrea Slattery, the chief executive officer of the SMSF Professionals’ Association of Australia (SPAA), has been appointed to the Board of Ladder, the AFL-supported Charity organisation dedicated to tackling youth homelessness in Australia.

  • Tax changes undermine superannuation

    The Federal Government’s decision to defer the start date of the $50,000 concessional cap for individuals over 50 and with an a superannuation account balance under $500,000 for two years is bad policy that has the long term potential to undermine Australia’s savings and retirement scheme, says the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) CEO Andrea Slattery

  • Beware the thief in a suit

    Sophisticated criminals have stolen millions in retirement savings and they are not about to stop, warns the Australian Crime Commission The nation's top law enforcers are investigating links between tens of millions of dollars in thefts from dozens of self-managed superannuation funds and major organised crime syndicates.

  • Investors left out in the cold

    Last Tuesday morning, as the financial services industry and a large chunk of the media were preparing to enter the annual budget bubble, Financial Services and Superannuation Minister Bill Shorten released a long-awaited review of compensation arrangements for individual investors.

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