Nearly half of Gen Y say now is the time to start thinking about super, according to surprising new research.
Susan Hely
 | Susan has been a finance journalist for more than 30 years, beginning at the Australian Financial Review before moving to the Sydney Morning Herald. She edited a superannuation magazine, Superfunds, for the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia, and writes regularly on superannuation and managed funds. She's also author of the best-selling book Women and Money. Connect with Susan Hely on LinkedIn. |
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The wrong super fund hurts your wealth. You are better off in an industry super fund because retail funds don't perform as well.
Giving up alcohol and sugar for a month can reduce your waistline and lower the risk of getting diabetes and heart disease. It can also save you money.
The latest research shows that fees have jumped 64% in the decade to 2017, outstripping the rise in inflation by two-and-a-half times. How much will your kids' education cost?
The Swedish furniture giant last year paid a bonus $2299 into the super funds of each of its 2700 Australian workers. Why? To say thank you.
Superannuation members have plenty of reasons to be happy, with median balanced fund finished 7.2% higher in 2016. Where did your super fund finish?
While you want your kids to follow what they are interested in, you also want them to get a job, but parents often get in the way of what their kids want to do.
If you want to ramp up your superannuation, take advantage of the $180,000 contribution cap limit before it is slashed to a lower limit of $100,000.
When impatient children or grandchildren make a grab for a share of their parents' or grandparents' assets while they are still alive, it is dubbed "early inheritance syndrome" by lawyers. The other term for this common fraud is "financial elder abuse", and it's becoming increasingly common.
Book a tour to bob down the milky blue waters through gorges to the cascades of the Mount Hope Waterfall of Espiritu Santo in Vanuatu.
