Self-managed super fund statistical report – September 2012

SMSF population table – annual data

This table contains details of the number of SMSFs that were established or wound up during each financial year. Establishment date is the date when an SMSF is deemed by the super law to come into existence and can be different from the date the SMSF registers with us.

Wind ups include both those initiated by trustees and those as a result of ATO compliance and cleansing activity. Those initiated by the trustees refer to the year the fund actually winds up rather than the date this advice is received by us. Net establishments are calculated as establishments less wind ups.

Total number of SMSFs is calculated as the number of SMSFs as at the end of the previous financial year plus net establishments for the financial year.

The number of members of SMSFs is estimated based on SMSF return form data, with the estimates for June 2012 extrapolated from 2010-11 data.

The data was extracted on 10 October 2012

	Jun-04	Jun-05	Jun-06	Jun-07	Jun-08	Jun-09	Jun-10	Jun-11	Jun-12
Establishments	30,548	23,049	24,575	45,666	31,614	32,586	29,913	33,139	36,270
Wind ups	4,757	5,052	4,999	4,612	6,018	8,582	14,699	5,108	994
Net establishments	25,791	17,997	19,576	41,054	25,596	24,004	15,214	28,031	35,276
Total number of SMSFs	271,515	289,512	309,088	350,142	375,738	399,742	414,956	442,987	478,263
Total members of SMSFs	523,990	558,887	593,591	668,011	712,917	759,271	792,827	846,227	913,550