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SMSF Resources
Understand the issues that change your SMSF position.
SMSF Home resources explain what trustees and professionals need to pay attention to across ATO updates, LRBA changes, property, asset categories and fund operations. Home Helper™ carries that context into the fund workflow.
Resource purpose
Not just information. Trustee-ready context.
A trustee does not only need to know that something exists. They need to know why it matters, what position the fund is in, and who may need to be involved next.
ATO updates
Property changes
LRBA deadlines
Contribution timing
Asset categories
Professional review
Evidence gaps
Trustee prompts
Learn the issue. See the position. Prepare the next action.
Resources and guidance
The library explains. Home Helper™ helps apply the context.
Public resources help trustees learn about an issue. Inside SMSF Home, guidance appears where the related record, asset or workflow is being managed—helping the trustee understand, act and prepare.
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Start with the issue that affects your fund.
Each resource explains the issue, the trustee position, the professional context and how SMSF Home helps make the situation clearer.
ATO visibility
ATO updates and correspondence
ATO letters, notices, newsroom updates and trustee correspondence can all change what needs attention inside the fund.
What did the ATO send or release?
Why does it matter to trustees?
Does it need action or professional review?
Open resource
Borrowing changes
LRBA
Residential LRBA rules have changed. Trustees need to identify whether they have an existing arrangement, a transitional position, a new business real property pathway, direct ownership, or a strategy that needs review.
What is affected?
What does 10 August mean?
Where does the fund fit now?
Open resource
Property position
SMSF property
Property inside an SMSF creates an ongoing position across ownership, funding, rent, expenses, valuations and disposal decisions.
Is the property considering, lined up, established or being sold?
Who is involved?
What needs attention next?
Open resource
Asset position
Investment options
SMSF investments can include cash, shares, ETFs, managed funds, property, crypto, trusts, private interests and other assets.
What does the fund hold?
What category does it sit in?
Does it need evidence or review?
Open resource
The SMSF Home lens
Good resources should lead to a clearer fund position.
The point is not to overwhelm trustees with more articles. The point is to help trustees understand what matters and where attention is needed.
01
Explain the issue
Each resource starts with the real SMSF issue, not a generic definition.
02
Show why it matters
Trustees need to understand whether something affects timing, evidence, review, strategy or professional involvement.
03
Connect it to the fund
SMSF Home helps turn scattered information into a clearer fund position.
04
Prepare the next conversation
The goal is cleaner context before talking to the accountant, auditor, adviser, broker or lawyer.
Bring the issue home
Once you understand the issue, keep the fund position clear inside SMSF Home.
Home Helper™ source and review record
Primary guidance sources
This educational summary is not a substitute for the current law, regulator guidance or advice based on the fund's circumstances. Use the primary sources below to check the rule and later changes.
- ATO - Running a self-managed super fund (opens in a new tab)
Source checked 2026-08-21
- ATO - Investment strategy (opens in a new tab)
Source checked 2026-08-21
- Moneysmart - Self-managed super fund (SMSF) (opens in a new tab)
Source checked 2026-08-21
Resource version 1.0.0 / Content reviewed 2026-08-21