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Sinclair Wilson | Self-Managed Super Funds - Operating your own Superannuation Fund
Self managed super funds provide a flexible means for you to provide for your retirement and to control your retirement savings. This enables you to secure a taxeffective income from those savings upon retirement. Self managed super funds can also be an efficient means of reducing tax on investment income.
Who can establish a Self Managed Fund? Anybody can set up their own fund.
- Employees
- Self-Employed persons
- People who seek to manage their own superannuation investments rather than relying on their employer’s superannuation fund
- People who have retired with investments in rollover funds, allocated pension funds or annuities
- Retirees wishing to place their assets in a tax effective environment, or avail themselves of Capital Gains Tax relief upon retirement from working life.
- People unable to work due to illness or disability.
- Unemployed or retired people via a spouse contribution a self managed fund is generally structured around families, with four people being the maximum number of members.
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