The SMSF sector had its 20th birthday this year so it’s opportune to look back and reflect on what has happened since. - Originally published in "Financial Standard"

To me, February is always about the SMSF Association National Conference and Heffron will be there in force this year. Lyn Formica, Leigh Mansell and I will all be speaking and we hope to see you at our sessions.

From January 2020, the ATO will commence a new initiative to help safeguard retirement savings and reduce the risk of fraud by issuing alerts to trustees via email and/or text messages when changes are made within SMSFs.

You will notice we changed our branding and our website. There’s a reason for this, but before I dive into that, I probably need to provide you with a little background.

The Retirement Income Review’s Consultation Paper was published on time last week. Given the time pressures, this was a major achievement so congratulations to the whole team involved.

This month we were fortunate to welcome a small team of courageous high school kids for a week to help us with our work on improving financial literacy for younger people.

A clear majority of SMSF professionals voted Heffron SMSF Administrator of the Year 2019.

Leveraging digital data commercially is often described as a “data play”. They are easier to pull off when one party understands the value of data and the other party does not.

Like any business that wants to thrive and remain relevant to its clients, Heffron is always looking for ways to improve how we do our work.

Data is the mother of all knowledge and as we all know - knowledge is power.

It was pretty big news in SMSF circles today when SuperConcepts announced they had bought More Super.

Why is there so much focus on SMSFs and Bitcoin? Mainly because it’s new and sexy.