Is SMSF sector consolidating?

1 August 2019
| By Mike |
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Consolidation is occurring within the Self-Managed Superannuation Funds (SMSF) sector, according to the latest benchmark analysis provided by specialist SMSF administrator, Class.

The company’s latest analysis said that while small firms, those with less than 25 SMSFs, were still a significant subscriber category in the company’s platform, a typical small SMSF practice was now between 24 and 100 hundred funds.

“The SMSF industry is consolidating and we would expect that per centage to decrease over time,” it said.

The benchmark report also pointed to there being a continuing significant difference between the average balances of members in SMSFs with just two members, with the first member having almost double the assets of the second.

However, it said it expected that this disparity would reduce now that superannuation policy changes had placed tighter restrictions around member contributions and balances.

It said that as a group, member currently had 32 per cent more assets than women and their average balance was 21 per cent higher.

The Class benchmark report also claimed that it was wrong to assert that SMSFs were under-invested in international assets when compared to Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) funds, because such claims failed to take account of managed fund exposures.

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