Solution Brief: Choosing your Executors and Trustees
This Solution Brief discusses the key considerations for choosing the Executors and Trustees for your Will. Your Executors are the people who will take care of your wealth after you have died. Their tasks include locating your Will, finding out what assets and...
Solution Brief: Self-Managed Super Funds – Individual or Company Trustee?
We often get asked whether it is better to have a ‘company trustee’ or ‘individual trustees’ for a self-managed super fund. This question gets asked both when we are setting up a new super fund, and when we are reviewing an existing super fund. In our view, the short...
Is your reversionary pension really binding on your SMSF trustee?
A super fund is, at its most basic, simply a ‘trust’. The ‘trustee’ of the super fund holds the ‘member’s balance’ on trust for the ‘member’. What most people don’t realise is that because the super fund is a trust, it’s governed by the...
Should I include my children as members of my SMSF?
Including your children as members of your SMSF can be quite beneficial, but do you know the risks and disadvantages of doing so?
Appointing an enduring attorney to look after your SMSF while you’re overseas
If you are heading overseas for an extended period of time, and have a SMSF, then you need to do some housekeeping before you leave.
