Reserves work for SMSFs too
Financial planners need to establish self-managed super funds (SMSFs) with reserves to create more flexibility, according to the principal of SMSF Strategies, Grant Abbott.
Speaking at the Self-Managed Super Fund Professionals' Association of Australia conference, Abbott said SMSFs with reserves could move money around a lot more easily.
“If you put money into a member’s account, the money can’t be touched. But if you place money into reserves, then you can start to move it around. By moving these around, we can start to add a completely different hybrid dimension,” he said.
Abbot said that if a fund ran reserves, it wasn't required to do a fair and reasonable allocation to super members.
Investment reserves could also smooth and enhance flexibility, he added.
Self-insurance reserves would allow you to get a large tax deduction for amounts set aside in order to pay disability, life insurance, or death benefits, he said.
Anti-detriment reserves were also an option but they had to be built inside the pension reserve, because when they were paid out, anti-detriment payments were considered a super contribution by the Australian Taxation Office, Abbott said.
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