Self Managed Superannuation Funds A Survival Guide

by Newnham, Max

• ISBN13: 9781742169262
• ISBN10: 1742169260
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-12-20
• Publisher: Wiley
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Summary

Self Managed Superannuation Funds: A Survival Guide is a comprehensive how-to guide to self managed superannuation funds in Australia. SMSF's can be a minefield if you don't understand how they work or comply with the legislation. Max Newnham's accessible guide will help readers maximise the benefits of a SMSF and ensure they comply with the legislation and meet the reporting requirements of the ATO.Practical and hands-on, the book covers everything from establishing and managing a SMSF to investing strategies, paying out benefits and winding the SMSF up. Filled with easy-to-implement tips this book is the essential guide for anyone in, or thinking about creating, a self-managed superannuation fund.

Author Biography

Max Newnham is a qualified chartered accountant who has spent more than 30 years working with large and small businesses and individuals helping them achieve their maximum potential. Max takes complicated accounting and financial subjects and presents them to clients and readers in way that they can be understood and solved. Max has recently attained the designation of Certified Financial Planner. Max has a regular column with The Age and also appears occasionally in The Sydney Morning Herald. Max is the author of The GST Survival Guide - for Families and Small Business (Fairfax), Super Made Simple: A Survival Guide (Fairfax) and Tax For Small Business: A Survival Guide (Wrightbooks).

Table of Contents

About the author

Acknowledgements

Preface

The history of superannuation

Fund types and self managed super

The technical stuff

Tax and superannuation

The rules of the SMSF game

Setting up an SMSF

Running an SMSF

Documentation for SMSFs

Superannuation strategies

Making good investments

Questions and answers

Appendix: super figures and tables

Glossary

Resources

Index

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