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Solution briefs

Solution Brief: Unit trusts

Solution Brief: Unit trusts

A ‘unit trust’ is a commonly used structure for ‘pooling money’ and holding investment assets, particularly property. They are sometimes used for carrying on a small business, but this is less common. What is a unit trust? A ‘trust’ is a legal relationship between at...

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Solution Brief: Leveraged Trusts

Solution Brief: Leveraged Trusts

A hybrid trust is a structure for holding investments when you want to access enhanced “asset protection” and “negative gearing”. A hybrid trust is an alternative to both a standard “discretionary” or “family” trust, which generally do not allow negative gearing in...

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Solution Brief: Discretionary Trusts

Solution Brief: Discretionary Trusts

When used appropriately, a Discretionary Trust offers a number of potential advantages, including: “Asset protection”, meaning that assets held within a Discretionary Trust have a degree of protection from unwarranted claims made against persons associated with the...

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Solution Brief: Avoid Surcharge Land Tax in NSW

Solution Brief: Avoid Surcharge Land Tax in NSW

What is surcharge land tax? In NSW, land tax is a tax on land you own at midnight on 31 December of the previous year. Surcharge land tax applies to residential land owned by a foreign person at midnight on 31 December of the previous year. Revenue NSW administers and...

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Solution Brief: Super Death Benefit Nominations

Solution Brief: Super Death Benefit Nominations

This information sheet discusses why you need to think about what happens to your super when you die People have more and more of their wealth tied up in super.  People are also keeping money in super for longer during retirement – taking a super ‘pension’ rather than...

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Solution Brief: Single Member SMSFs

Solution Brief: Single Member SMSFs

This solution brief discusses your options for appointing a trustee for your self-managed super fund, and what happens if you lose mental capacity, die, or leave the country. Single member funds A self-managed super fund can have 1 member, but care needs to be taken...

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Video Posts

Estate Planning: Superannuation

Join our team as we answer your FAQs about superannuation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHpkKGimEm0&list=PL9OZYlmMxihoQYxYHDQcDiVeB6R7yPVtb&index=2 If you want to read a written version of these FAQs, click here.  To watch the rest of our Estate...

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Estate Planning: Estate Administration

Join our Andreyev Lawyers team as we answer your FAQs about estate administration. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tly-rX9_Ew&list=PL9OZYlmMxihoQYxYHDQcDiVeB6R7yPVtb&index=3 If you want to read a written version of these FAQs, click here.    To watch the...

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Estate Planning: Challenges to a Will

Join our team as we answer your FAQs about challenges to a Will. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27VmU3nrVJA&list=PL9OZYlmMxihoQYxYHDQcDiVeB6R7yPVtb&index=5 If you want to read a written version of these FAQs, click here.   To watch the rest of our Estate...

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Estate Planning: Wills

Join our team as we answer your FAQs about Wills. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REAy-R_vkJw&list=PL9OZYlmMxihoQYxYHDQcDiVeB6R7yPVtb&index=6 If you want to read a written version of these FAQs, click here.  To watch the rest of our Estate Planning series: The...

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Estate Planning: The Importance of Estate Planning

Join our Andreyev Lawyers team as we answer your FAQs about the importance of Estate Planning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0VAP1iZapw If you want to read a written version of these FAQs, click here.  To watch the rest of our Estate Planning series: Wills...

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VideoPost: Succession Planning

This VideoPost is a recording of our 'Succession Strategies and Estate Planning' seminar, which we presented to clients on Kangaroo Island in July 2022. This seminar will be most helpful for business and farming families, but it will also be useful for anyone wanting...

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Podcasts

Book Reviews

Learning how to learn

Learning how to learn

We think ‘learning how to learn’ is perhaps the most important meta skill you can acquire. Why – because effective learning enables you to effectively respond to change – and your ability to respond to change is the number one (and perhaps only) thing that will determine your longer term success.

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The importance of mistakes and errors in achieving high performance

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The benefit of errors

I have been reading a series of books about what at first appeared to be unrelated topics. Neuroscience, talent (or the lack thereof), checklists, decision-making, and high performance teams. While not a common theme on the face of each book – an underlying principle in all of them is the importance of mistakes and errors.

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Do you have a good memory? Have you ever sat at your desk trying to remember your login password? Stood in the corner of a room trying to avoid eye contact with someone whose name you cannot remember. Is it getting better, or worse?

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Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer

Do you have a good memory? Have you ever sat at your desk trying to remember your login password? Stood in the corner of a room trying to avoid eye contact with someone whose name you cannot remember. Is it getting better, or worse? If you are like me, when you hear...

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Jerry Maguire (1996)

By definition, and depending upon who you're talking to, `Success' can be measured in a number of different ways. It's winning the competition, celebrating a Golden Wedding Anniversary or, to many, just making the most money. The first two are absolutes; you win and...

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How we lie to everyone – especially ourselves.

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The (Honest) Truth about Dishonesty, by Dan Ariely

How we lie to everyone – especially ourselves. ‘Behavioural economics’ is basically the study of how humans really act, as opposed to how we think we act, or think we should act. Most of Western philosophy and social science (including law) is based on the notion that...

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