Elements and Performance Criteria
- Establish trust file
- Administer the trust appropriately
- Assets are held at appropriate locations meeting all statutory and legal requirements
- Appropriate tools are established and prepared to manage the trust with needs of beneficiaries for both income and capital reviewed
- Applications by beneficiaries for advance of capital or income are responded to in a manner most appropriate to all parties concerned
- Trust assets are invested appropriately and investment obligations of the trustee are satisfied with assets and funds distributed appropriately
- Customer service strategies that assess and respond to customers' needs are used to ensure maximum customer satisfaction and conflict resolution skills are used to recognise and defuse potential conflict
- Evaluate and review trust performance
- Trust performance is reviewed periodically to ensure its relevance and appropriateness to client needs
- Trust performance is reported to appropriate persons and clients are advised if changes to the trust are appropriate
- Ongoing management of the trust is provided and additional considerations dealt with in a timely and professional manner
- If required, private companies are directed, managed or wound up and appropriate taxation effective strategies are put in place