retirement income review

Superannuation

The Budget could have made more impactful changes to the retirement incomes system to help those at risk of poverty in retirement, according to the Actuaries Institute. ...

Superannuation

The assumptions used by the government’s Retirement Income Review were objectively wrong and vastly inflates retirement outcomes to work towards a pre-determined outcome ...

Superannuation

In its pre-Budget submission, it has recommended changes to the low-income superannuation tax offset, as well as improvements to how the superannuation guarantee is dealt...

Superannuation

Challenger’s chair, Jeremy Cooper, is “ambivalent” about the superannuation guarantee increase while Cbus’ Robbie Campo says the increase will benefit those that are seei...

Superannuation

Retirees will be more willing to spend their superannuation if they are provided with greater certainty around Government policy and the adequacy of their retirement bala...

Superannuation

The Government’s Retirement Income Review has been welcomed but the industry has differing views on the superannuation guarantee increase and accessing home equity to fun...

Superannuation

Smaller superannuation funds should be considering mergers or heading for the exit, according to a new report which suggests Australia’s optimal number of funds is 15, do...

Superannuation

The former chair of the Commonwealth Superannuation Schemes has called to replace government taxes with an asset-based dividend to boost retirement income....

Superannuation

Reducing the taper rate and increasing the super guarantee to 12% would increase adequacy and improve the government’s net fiscal position, according to Industry Super Au...

Post retirement

Should the Age Pension be a safety net or a guaranteed pillar retirees can rely on?...

Superannuation

Mercer has called for a universal Age Pension as it would create a simpler, more efficient super system with reduced administration costs....

Superannuation

Using a subsidising of a percentage-of-salary model to determine adequacy leads to low income earners to earn less and high income earners to seek taxpayer subsidies, acc...

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Grant Banner

From my perspective, 40- 50% of people are likely going to be deeply unhappy about how long they actually live. ...

10 months 2 weeks ago
Kevin Gorman

Super director remuneration ...

10 months 3 weeks ago
Anthony Asher

No doubt true, but most of it is still because over 45’s have been upgrading their houses with 30 year mortgages. Money ...

10 months 3 weeks ago

The superannuation industry will be judged by its member services rather than how effectively it accumulates wealth, according to Stephen Jones....

17 hours ago

APRA’s latest data has revealed that superannuation funds spent $1.3 billion on advice fees, with the vast majority sent to external financial advisers....

17 hours ago

The profit-to-member super funds are officially operating as a merged entity, set to serve over half a million members. ...

3 days 16 hours ago