Regulators’ Update: A Q&A with the ATO & ASIC

National Conference 2025

This Q&A session with key representatives from the ATO and ASIC offers a unique opportunity to hear directly from the regulators shaping the SMSF landscape. Facilitated by our team, this session covers the latest regulatory updates, compliance trends, and emerging challenges facing the sector. Attendees gained valuable insights into how recent developments may impact their practices, ensuring they stay ahead in a rapidly evolving regulatory environment.

By watching this session, you will be able to:

  • Recognise emerging trends in the SMSF sector from a SIS compliance and advice risk perspective. 
  • Identify the most common types of SMSF SIS compliance breaches.
  • Explain the regulators’ SMSF compliance programs and their compliance approaches.
  • Outline ASIC and ATO key SMSF risk focus areas.  
 

The contents of this resource are taken to be correct at the time of publication.

Disclaimer: Technical Papers contain factual information only and are prepared without considering particular objectives, financial circumstances and needs. The information provided is not a substitute for legal, tax and financial product advice. The information contained in this document does not constitute advice given by the SMSF Association to you. If you rely on this information yourself or to provide advice to other persons, then you do so at your own risk. The SMSF Association is not licensed to provide financial product advice, legal advice or taxation advice. We recommend that you seek appropriate professional advice before relying upon the information in this technical paper. While the SMSF Association believes that the information provided is accurate, no warranty is given as to its accuracy and persons who rely on this information do so at their own risk. The information provided in this paper is not considered financial advice for the purposes of the Corporations Act 2001. © SMSF Association