April 2013 - Watkins Financial Services

Last chance to transfer shares into Super

From 1 July 2013 Self Managed Super Fund (SMSF) trustees will no longer be able to transfer listed shares into super via an off-market transfer arrangement. The transferring of shares into the superannuation environment is called an in specie transfer. This tyContinue Reading...

Why start a Transition to Retirement (TTR) Pension?

Superannuation has traditionally been structured in a way that meant you needed to reach your preservation age and retire from the workforce in order to access your superannuation benefits. This meant that those who wanted to reduce their working hours in the Continue Reading...

Here we go again – the government can’t keep hands off super

The government cannot keep their hands off super. Since Keating introduced superannuation in the early 90’s there has been several changes, which has created an enormous amount of work for financial advisors. It creates uncertainty. So for the next 6 weeks oContinue Reading...