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SMSF - Are they for you?

05 July 2017, 22:15 CET

When considering pension funds and means of managing company funds, it might be worth your time to have a look at SMSF, which stands for Self Managed Super Funds.

These type of funds provide an enticing set of advantages to organizations that adopt this solution and therefore have seen a substantial growth in the past years. Today, self managed super funds are more popular than ever and depending on your precise business and organization details, it might also be just what you were looking for without even knowing it.

If you're interested in finding you whether or not you should be looking into self managed super fund accountants, it will cost you nothing at all to do some research on the topic. For starters, you can begin by reading the rest of this article which contains useful information regarding the core benefits of using the SMSF model. Without further delay, here are the main advantages that might convince you to invest in such a fund.

Control and flexibility

When it comes to control, you can't possibly hope for more control than you get through a self managed super fund. Using this investment model will allow you to have full control over your investment portfolio. That's not all, as you also will become able to account for the risk profile of your assets.

In terms of flexibility, you get plenty of it when it comes down to using your pension income streams. This involves a number of different pension types such as account based pensions. Superannuation provides a lot more utility however and being able to remain flexible under all circumstances will allow you take full advantage of this utility. For example, if you're trying to access an age pension, your superannuation offers will most likely include offers regarding to that specific topic, which would be made available to you.

With other funds, you might not always get the final or complete say as to your investments or decisions in the matter, but with a self managed super fun you can be sure that that isn't the case as you are fully entitled to make your own investment related decisions.

Opportunities

There are many opportunities to be had through a self managed super fun, most of them having to do with advantageous options like borrowing an investment for instance. With the help of limited recourse borrowing, you can borrow or even gear an investment so that it better fits your necessities.

In addition, you can also pool your resources in coalition with the other members of the fun. This can especially come in handy when like-minded individuals with similar needs and aims are in need of a partnership of sorts where they combine efforts for a greater goal that so becomes achievable.

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