- April 26, 2023
- Research
The SMSF Association engaged the University of Adelaide to examine the overall financial performance of self-managed super funds (SMSFs) compared to APRA-regulated funds.
This joint research venture is based on financial statement data from over 310,000 SMSFs for the period 2020-2021. This is a significant sample size as it represents more than 50% of all existing SMSFs.
This research contributes to the existing evidence on the strong financial performance of the SMSF sector.
It extends the research completed by the University of Adelaide for the 2017–19 period, and again shows SMSFs perform on par with, or better than, APRA funds in some financial years.
This is the full research report compiled for the SMSF Association by the International Centre for Financial Services, The University of Adelaide and prepared by George Mihaylov BMa&CompSc(Stat) BFin(Hons) PhD Adel, Chee Cheong BCom(CorpFin) BCom(Hons) PhD Adel and Ralf Zurbruegg BSc(Econ) LSE, MSc PhD Manc.
With recognition of data support jointly by BGL Corporate Solutions, Class Limited, and SuperConcepts Pty Ltd.
At the time of publishing, the contents of this resource were accurate and correct.
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