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A weekly newsletter, simply explained guides, calculators, a compliance calendar, and a glossary, built for the person actually running the fund.
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SMSF guides
Understand the rules before you act.
Detailed yet simple guides for the decisions trustees actually face: setup, pensions, investment strategy, property, crypto, death benefits, audits, and year-end planning.
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Use the calculators and references when you need a fast answer: contribution caps, pension minimums, compliance dates, rules, glossary terms, and trustee deadlines.
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Most SMSF content is written for accountants. Super Informed exists to fix that.
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"The non-arm's length income provisions may apply where the LRBA terms are not consistent with those which might reasonably be expected had the parties been dealing at arm's length."
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If your SMSF borrows to buy a property from a related party, the loan terms need to match what a bank would offer a stranger. If they do not, the ATO can tax all rental income from that property at 45%.
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Start here if you are checking whether Super Informed is useful for your fund, your adviser conversations, or your weekly SMSF reading.
Super Informed is an independent SMSF resource for Australian trustees. It brings together guides, tools, glossary definitions, compliance dates, and weekly updates in understandable language.
No. Super Informed provides general information only. It is designed to help you understand the issue, prepare better questions, and know what to raise with your accountant, adviser, auditor, or lawyer.
Use the pathfinder near the top of the homepage if you have a specific job in mind. If you are not sure, start with the SMSF guides, the compliance calendar, or the .
Yes. The weekly newsletter is currently free and is written for Australian SMSF trustees.
The weekly newsletter
Simple SMSF updates, every Thursday.
The week's most important development for trustees: rule changes, ATO updates, deadlines and the decisions worth raising with your adviser.
SMSF Super Preservation Debate: What Trustees Need to Know
What the August 2026 super preservation debate means for SMSF trustees, current conditions of release, SMSF liquidity risk, and the compound cost of early access.
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SMSF LRBA Ban: The Government Estimate and the 16,000 Loan Data Problem
The residential SMSF LRBA ban has started. AFIA says non-bank lenders wrote more than 16,000 new residential SMSF loans in FY26, far above the figures used in the policy debate.
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SMSF Association Technical Summit 2026: What Trustees Should Take Away
The SMSF Association's 2026 Technical Summit put Division 296, small rollover data, the CSLR levy and the residential LRBA ban back at the centre of SMSF policy.
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Individual vs Corporate Trustee: How Your SMSF Structure Shapes Costs, Penalties and Succession
Your SMSF trustee structure affects ASIC costs, ATO administrative penalties, asset ownership, single-member funds and what happens when a member joins, leaves or dies.
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SMSF Scam: How the Cold Call Rollover Scam Works and How to Spot It
SMSF rollover scams use real paperwork, real-looking websites and copied licence details to make a theft look like an ordinary superannuation decision.
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SMSF Minimum Balance: What the Industry Super Push Means for Trustees
Industry super funds are pushing for minimum balance safeguards on SMSFs. The cost concern is real, but a single dollar threshold does not tell the whole story.
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Who Can Audit an SMSF?
Audit season is underway. Here is who can legally audit an SMSF, why independence matters, what audits commonly cost, and how the process works before lodgement.
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Your 2025-26 SMSF Audit Checklist: What Auditors Check and How to Prepare
The 2025-26 SMSF audit now connects to Division 296 baseline values, LRBA transition records, ATO lodgement scrutiny and the usual audit evidence trustees need on file.
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SMSF Residential Property Borrowing Banned: What Trustees Need to Know
New SMSF LRBAs for residential property will close from 10 August 2026. Existing arrangements, refinancing of pre-commencement borrowings, and some pre-commencement acquisitions are carved out.
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Archived SMSF Timing Trap: Before 30 June or After 1 July 2026
More superannuation thresholds change on 1 July 2026 than in any recent year. For some EOFY decisions, the smarter move for SMSF trustees may be to wait.
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