SMSF Sector Size - Self-Managed Super Funds Annual Overview
ATO SMSF Annual Overview 2023-24, Table 1 sub-table 2 ("Annual SMSF population and assets"). Three headline metrics - total SMSFs, total members, total gross assets - over the last 6 financial years.
Source: Australian Taxation Office · Licensed CC-BY 3.0 AU · dataset id ato.SMSF_FUNDS
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ATO SMSF Annual Overview 2023-24, Table 1 sub-table 2 ("Annual SMSF population and assets"). Three headline metrics - total SMSFs, total members, total gross assets - over the last 6 financial years. The fastest answer to "how big is the SMSF sector?" - currently ~614,613 funds holding ~$997B in assets (2023-24), grown from ~566,871 funds / $711B in 2019-20. Source: ATO Self Managed Super Funds dataset on data.gov.au. **Record granularity**: each record is one (year, measure) pair. `limit=1` returns one observation (the most recent year of one measure), not "the latest snapshot across all measures". For the full latest-year snapshot pass `last_n=1` without a `measures` filter - that returns N records (one per measure for the latest year). Set `measures=['total_smsfs']` to narrow to a single metric over time.
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