Challenging Life Insurance for SMSFs

Legislative changes confuse 500,000 insured Australians using self-managed superannuation fund. Still, huge growth in SMSF retirement savings continues. Hence, TAL’s David Glen said clients and advisers must work together to determine what would provide best for life insurance needs: SMSF, retail superannuation or outside superannuation.   Thorough knowledge on SMSF use in investment and tax…

Personal Insurance in Super – Its your choice?

Did you know that tailored personal insurance super structuring can give you a greater choice and affordability of your life Insurance and Income Protection? If you have known about this before yet have doubts about the possible benefits, then now is the time you consider it seriously. In the past, you only had the choice…

SMSF New Compliance Requirements

 Self-Managed Superannuation Funds represent the fastest growing segment within Superannuation – the average SMSF now has $964,000 in assets. People are choosing SMSF for the following key reasons Having control over there Super Investments and their own retirement destiny Flexibility and investment choices Ability to purchase property and even borrow under some circumstances Able to…

New insurance guidelines for My Super

A draft version of the latest guidelines for MySuper legislation was released this week. The guidelines detail recommendations for a number of aspects of insurance and intra-fund advice, including clarification of commissions and payments for advisors, particularly in the field of group insurance. In the area of insurance, according to the new guidelines, MySuper trustees…