Overview
The Fund Pension Policies screen allows you to request an Actuarial Certificate directly from Accurium and enter the non-deductible expense proportions for a fund.
Pre-requisites
Important Prerequisites to use the Actuarial Wizard
- Enter all transactions for the financial year.
- Member(s) have been converted to pension mode.
- Fund relationships for the Trustee and Tax Agent have been entered.
- Fund Details have been entered (ABN,TFN etc).
- Create entries is not required to be processed to the end of the year.
Navigation
| From the Main Toolbar, go to Member. |
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| Select Fund pension policies from the list. |
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1. Select + New Actuarial Certificate.
2. The fund's current financial year will pre-fill. Select Request Actuarial Certificate to open the Actuary Wizard.
3. Select Accurium as the provider and click Next. 
4. Complete and Review your contact details.
This section will pre-fill based on your current Simple Fund 360 license details. However, they are editable if required. To update the billing details such as the address select Optional Details.
4. Confirm Segregation Eligibility (This will only display for 2018 and later Financial years.)
From 01 July 2017, the ATO has determined that for any portion of an income year where an SMSF's assets are held solely to meet super income stream liability benefits (i.e. any period that the SMSF is in 100% pension phase) the SMSF trustee is required to calculate its ECPI for that portion of the income year using the segregated method. This applies for even part of an income year, which will result in the year being part segregated and part unsegregated.
Furthermore, from 1 July 2017, a fund cannot have any assets classified as segregated at any time during a particular financial year if at the previous 30 June:
- any member had a total superannuation balance of more than $1.6 million (and remember, total superannuation balance includes not just the balance in the SMSF but all superannuation in every fund to which the member belongs), and
- any of those members with more than $1.6 million also had a retirement-phase pension from any fund (not necessarily this SMSF).
If a fund cannot be classified as segregated, it simply means it cannot claim its tax exemption on a segregated basis. The fund is still eligible for an exemption but under the Unsegregated method.
The member's TSB as at 30 June of the previous Financial Year will display. You will need to confirm to Accurium whether or not the fund is eligible to use the segregated method or not. If no is selected the fund will automatically use the Unsegregated method for the entire Financial Year.
5. Click Submit to Actuary.
This will send the required data from BGL to the Acccurium automatically
6. Select Click here to complete your application and Accurium’s website will open in a new tab for you to complete your application.
Accurium will not review any of the information sent until you confirm the application on their website. Accurium also does not provide an estimated percentage until you have completed your application on their website.
1. Logging in or Registering
If this is your first time accessing the Accurium membership portal, you will need to register your username and password. Select Join Now.
If you are a returning Accurium membership user, simply log in.
You will be directed to the application screen.
2. Order Workflow
The Accurium Website has the following workflow
3. Input Page
All the relevant fund details will pre-fill into Accurium’s online application form. If there are any issues with the application, error messages will appear.
Carefully review the data and then select Next to proceed to the Summary Screen.
4. Segregation Page
The chart displayed will illustrate the periods of the year the Fund had segregated pension assets, and the periods of the year where the Fund also had a non-retirement phase account and so was not segregated. This chart is based on the information provided on the Input page. Click Next to proceed.
5. Review Page
Please review your draft exempt income proportion on this screen and select continue to finalise and order your actuarial certificate.
Once you have ordered the certificate, the Accurium team will review the data and either produce the report or contact you for further information.
6. Payment Screen
Select your payment method and order.
7. Completion Screen
Once you have successfully completed your actuarial certificate request, the following confirmation will display.
8. Additional Help with Accurium
Accurium encourage you to use the help functionality below:
- Hovering over an information bubble will show you a short tooltip explaining what the required input means and how to complete that item on the form
- Clicking the question mark against each section heading will open a pop-up window with detailed information and examples of how to complete the form for inputs required in that section
- Clicking on a blue link will open up a pop-up window explaining the linked term and what it means for completing the form
If you have questions regarding the changes please call us on 1800 203 123 or email act@accurium.com.au.
If you need to prepare an amended certificate:
1. Make any necessary changes to the fund information (transactions);
2. Re-request an actuary certificate completing the steps from the above section Request an Actuarial Certificate from Accurium (steps 1 -6);
3. View the application on the Accurium website by selecting View Application. 
4. Log in to the Accurium membership portal.
5. Under Order page, select Amend. 
6. Input the reference number of the certificate to be amended and select Amend certificate, no charge.
To obtain the reference number of the certificate to be amended, refer to the front page of the finalised actuarial certificate.
7. You will receive an amended certificate via email. To update the amended percentage, review the steps below in Receiving the Actuarial Certificate.
Receiving the Actuarial Certificate
After processing your payment, you will receive the actuarial certificate via email (sent to the nominated email address).
You will need to ensure that the Pension Policy in SF360 reflects the official tax-exempt percentage issued by Accurium.
The Tax Exempt Percentage, Segregated and Unsegregated periods and the Certificate Status will all automatically be updated by Accurium.
Non-Deductible Expenses
See Fund Pension Policies for more information on non-deductible expenses.