The dust is starting to settle a little on the Labor party's recent proposal to stop the refund of unused franking credits and lines are slowly being drawn in the sand in preparation for battle.

Tim Fuller and Damien Klassen run through some keys areas to consider when assessing the performance, fees and asset allocation of your Self Managed Super Fund.

The Australian SMSF Landscape We recently ran a webinar entitled the SMSF Asset Allocation Master Class in which, as an introduction, I thought I might provide a snapshot of the Australian SMSF landscape. The following graphs have been be created from an ATO dataset who publish SMSF statistics ...

Interesting article out yesterday revealing the largesse local developers are now showering brokers and spruikers real estate advisers (I hesitate to call them financial advisers for obvious reasons) with to help move unsold stock from upcoming off the plan apartment developments.

As covered today by Leith over at MacroBusiness here and here, today's ABS release confirms what most of us suspect, that wage growth in the long term is looking pretty bleak. Therefore it might be pertinent to think about how this outlook might affect you.